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Huntington’s disease (HD) is a neurodegenerative disease that has motor dysfunction, predominantly chorea, cognitive impairment, and psychiatric disturbances as symptoms. Treatment is directed to reduce the severity of symptoms, although there are few studies and no clinical guidelines for rehabilitation in HD. Therefore, this review aimed to establish an effective rehabilitation approach for HD according to the stage of the disease. In the early stage of HD, the motor symptoms are mild, and psychological symptoms occur. Treatment in this period should focus on aerobic and resistance exercises, task-specific training, secondary prevention education, cognitive training, and psychological management. In the middle stage of HD, the motor symptoms are more severe. Task-specific rehabilitation approaches, education for the patient and caregiver, functional respiratory exercises, activities of daily living training, multidisciplinary and multimodal daycare rehabilitation are helpful to patients in this stage. At the late stage of HD, most patients need complete support for activity of daily living. Mobility and balance evaluation and prevention strategies should be focused on for safety,

Author

Ki-Hong Kim; Min-Keun Song

Published

2023

Language

EN