M easurement instruments to assess posture, gait, and balance in P arkinson's disease: Critique and recommendations

BR Bloem, J Marinus, Q Almeida, L Dibble… - Movement …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Background Disorders of posture, gait, and balance in Parkinson's disease (PD) are
common and debilitating. This MDS‐commissioned task force assessed clinimetric …

Characterizing freezing of gait in Parkinson's disease: models of an episodic phenomenon

A Nieuwboer, N Giladi - Movement Disorders, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Freezing of gait (FOG) is a very disabling and common gait disorder in Parkinson's disease
(PD). The first aim of this article was to provide a methodological and critical review of the …

Effects of external cues on gait parameters of Parkinson's disease patients: a systematic review

PA Rocha, GM Porfírio, HB Ferraz… - Clinical neurology and …, 2014 - Elsevier
Objectives A systematic review to evaluate the benefits of external cues on the gait of PD
patients and their impact on the quality of life, freezing and psychomotor performance was …

Clinical assessments in Parkinson's disease: scales and monitoring

R Bhidayasiri, P Martinez-Martin - International review of neurobiology, 2017 - Elsevier
Measurement of disease state is essential in both clinical practice and research in order to
assess the severity and progression of a patient's disease status, effect of treatment, and …

Lateralisation in Parkinson disease

P Riederer, KA Jellinger, P Kolber, G Hipp… - Cell and tissue …, 2018 - Springer
Asymmetry of dopaminergic neurodegeneration and subsequent lateralisation of motor
symptoms are distinctive features of Parkinson's disease compared to other forms of …

Dyskinesia in Parkinson's disease: mechanisms and current non‐pharmacological interventions

R Heumann, R Moratalla, MT Herrero… - Journal of …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Dopamine replacement therapy in Parkinson's disease is associated with several unwanted
effects, of which dyskinesia is the most disabling. The development of new therapeutic …

Gait training in virtual reality: short-term effects of different virtual manipulation techniques in Parkinson's disease

O Janeh, O Fründt, B Schönwald, A Gulberti… - Cells, 2019 - mdpi.com
It is well documented that there is a strong relationship between gait asymmetry and the
freezing of gait (FOG) in Parkinson's Disease. The purpose of this pilot study was to find a …

Beauty that moves: dance for Parkinson's effects on affect, self-efficacy, gait symmetry, and dual task performance

C Fontanesi, JFX DeSouza - Frontiers in psychology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Background: Previous studies have investigated the effects of dance interventions on
Parkinson's motor and non-motor symptoms in an effort to develop an integrated view of …

Dual motor-cognitive virtual reality training impacts dual-task performance in freezing of gait

I Killane, C Fearon, L Newman… - IEEE journal of …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Freezing of gait (FOG), an episodic gait disturbance characterized by the inability to
generate effective stepping, occurs in more than half of Parkinson's disease patients. It is …

Spatio-temporal gait parameters obtained from foot-worn inertial sensors are reliable in healthy adults in single-and dual-task conditions

J Soulard, J Vaillant, R Balaguier, N Vuillerme - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
Inertial measurement units (IMUs) are increasingly popular and may be usable in clinical
routine to assess gait. However, assessing their intra-session reliability is crucial and has …