Objective : The purpose of the study is to propose the treatment methods for problem of handwriting, micrographia in Parkinson's disease.
Methods : For this purpose, foreign literatures on the subjects with Parkinson's disease was researched.
Results : The results of this review is summarized as follows. The treatment methods for micrographia were applied to external cue and feedback among motor learning strategies in order to improve motor initiation. The external cues included visual, auditory, and verbal stimulations, and feedback strategy was visual stimulation. For writing with external cue or visual feedback, result in expanding the size of the letters in addition, writing task performance is maintained for a short period without those.
Conclusion : Further studies are needed to examine the strategy maintained effect for long periods.