Parkinson’s disease is a multifaceted neurodegenerative disease that impairs movement, coordination, and cognitive function over time. Physical therapy-led exercise is a critical component of managing Parkinson’s disease, helping to manage symptoms, and even slowing progression of the disease. Therapeutic boxing is a unique targeted exercise therapy, requiring full-body movement, combining upper-body punching sequences with lower-body footwork to build strength, counter rigidity, and improve hand-eye coordination, balance, posture, and agility. Mangiarelli Rehabilitation physical therapist Bobby demonstrates therapeutic boxing with a Parkinson’s patient on the blog!

Mangiarelli Rehabilitation physical therapist Bobby demonstrates therapeutic boxing with a Parkinson’s patient on our blog. Parkinson’s disease is a multifaceted neurological disorder that impairs movement, coordination, and cognitive function over time. Therapeutic boxing with a physical therapist offers an innovative and effective exercise intervention to enhance a Parkinson’s disease patient’s stride length, gait, strength, coordination, and balance. Therapeutic boxing requires full-body movement, combining upper-body punching sequences with lower-body footwork.

Boxing is a high-impact sport requiring full-body movement, coordination, agility, endurance, and power, combining upper-body power punching with lower-body footwork. Due to the high intensity of the sport, upper body injuries are common, including concussions, wrist and elbow strains, boxer’s fracture, or shoulder rotator cuff or labrum tears. Physical therapists can help boxers prevent injury through a customized strength and conditioning program and recover from and return to the boxing ring safely after injury.

April is #ParkinsonsDiseaseAwarenessMonth. Parkinson’s disease is a neurodegenerative condition that can negatively impact an individual’s physical and cognitive abilities, including mobility limitations, balance issues, and gait problems. Physical therapy helps Parkinson’s disease patients manage the disease and delay progression of symptoms using a customized exercise program, including the innovative treatment of therapeutic boxing. Physical therapy helps Parkinson’s disease patients enhance mobility, balance, and coordination and improve quality of life and functional independence.

Parkinson’s disease is a lifelong condition from the onset of the disease, often around age 60. A customized physical therapy treatment plan can help manage the condition and maintain physical and cognitive function that can be affected by the disease. Physical therapy helps combat movement issues, difficulty walking, and impaired balance and coordination. Physical therapy can also improve posture, strength, and flexibility and decrease pain and stiffness.

Parkinson’s disease is a neurodegenerative disorder that can impair movement, balance, and coordination. At Mangiarelli Rehabilitation, we offer boxing exercise as a physical therapy treatment for Parkinson’s disease, which improves coordination, agility, and hand-eye coordination. Boxing treatment addresses the symptoms of tremors, balance issues, gait mobility, and postural rigidity and instability by encouraging agility of movement in multiple directions, flexibility of the spine, and coordination of movement at faster speeds.