Department of Integrative Biology and Physiology, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Department of Neurology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, University of California Los Angeles, 635 Charles E. Young Drive South/Gordon 451, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, USA.
Brain Health Imaging Centre, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Edmond J. Safra Parkinson Disease Program, Neurology Division, Toronto Western Hospital & Krembil Brain Institute, University Health Network, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Multimodal Neuroimaging Group, Department of Nuclear Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University Hospital of Cologne, University of Cologne, 50937 Cologne, Germany.
Department of Neurology, Faculty of Medicine, University Hospital of Cologne, University of Cologne, 50937 Cologne, Germany.
Department of Neuroimaging and Interventional Radiology, National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences (NIMHANS), Hosur Road, Bengaluru, 560029, Karnataka, India.
Department of Neuroimaging and Interventional Radiology, National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences (NIMHANS), Hosur Road, Bengaluru, 560029, Karnataka, India.
Chulalongkorn Centre of Excellence for Parkinson's Disease & Related Disorders, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University and King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital, Thai Red Cross Society, Bangkok, 10330, Thailand. Electronic address: rbh@chulapd.org.
This systematic review and meta-analysis aimed to review and quantify the changes in gait parameters after therapeutic intervention in adults with neurologic disorders....
A keyword search was performed in 4 databases: PubMed, CINAHL, Scopus, and Web of Science (01/2000-12/2021). We performed the search algorithm including all possible combinations of keywords. Full-tex...
Studies were thoroughly screened using the following inclusion criteria: Study design: randomized controlled trial; adults ≥55 years old with a neurologic disorder; therapeutic intervention; spatiotem...
A standardized data extraction form was used to collect the following methodological outcome variables from each of the included studies: author, year, population, age, sample size, and spatiotemporal...
We included 25 out of 34 studies in our meta-analysis that examined gait in adults with neurologic disorders. All analyses used effect sizes and standard error and a P<.05(denoted by *) threshold was ...
Sensory stimulation such as auditory and somatosensory stimulation while walking had the most significant effect on step length in adults with PD. We also found that conventional physical therapy did ...
This study aims to evaluate the effects of medication, and the freezing of gait (FoG) on the kinematic and kinetic parameters of gait in people with Parkinson's disease (pwPD) compared to neurological...
Twenty-two people with a clinical diagnosis of idiopathic PD in ON and OFF medication (11 FoG), and 18 healthy participants (control) were selected from two open data sets. All participants walked on ...
(1) FoG mainly affects distal joints, such as the ankle and knee; (2) PD ON showed changes in the range of motion of both distal and proximal joints, which may explain the increase in step length and ...
The presence of FoG mainly affects distal joints, such as the ankle and knee. PD presents a lower application of GRF during the impulse period than healthy people, causing lower gait performances....
Walking impairment represents a relevant symptom in patients with neurological diseases often compromising social participation. Currently, mixed methods studies on robot-assisted gait training (RAGT)...
A mixed-methods feasibility study was conducted at an Austrian rehabilitation centre. Twenty-eight inpatients after stroke in the subacute and chronic phases, with multiple sclerosis, Parkinson's dise...
Data from 26 patients (mean age 61.6 years [standard deviation 13.2]) were analysed. RAGT was highly accepted by patients and feasible, indicated by recruitment, retention, and adherence rates of 84.8...
Sufficiently powered randomised controlled trials are needed to validate our results....
German Clinical Trials Register, DRKS00027887....
Gait and balance disorders are common signs in several neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson's disease, atypical parkinsonism, idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus, cerebrovascular disease,...
Few studies interrogated the involvement of cerebellum in modulating gait in Parkinson's disease (PD) patients with postural instability and gait disorders (PD-PIGD). This study aimed at assessing cer...
Twenty-one PD-PIGD and 23 healthy controls underwent clinical assessment, structural MRI, and fMRI including a motor-task (foot anti-phase movements) and a dual-task (foot anti-phase movements while c...
PD-PIGD patients had reduced volumes of cerebellar motor and non-motor areas relative to controls. During fMRI motor-task, patients showed greater activation of cognitive cerebellar areas (VI and Crus...
In PD-PIGD, the increased activity of non-motor cerebellar areas during gait-simulating tasks may be a consequence of grey matter atrophy or an attempt to compensate the functional failure of cerebell...
Falls are associated with hearing loss, which might be explained by the onset of gait disorders. The objective of this study was to examine the association between Age-Related Hearing Loss (ARHL) and ...
We examined data from 53 older patients (mean 84.2 ± 5.1 years; 64% women) included after a GAITrite...
After adjustment for age, sex, body mass index, Mini-Mental State Examination score and presbyvestibulopathy, we found an increase in stride length mean in the untimely ARHL group (p = 0.046), but no ...
Untimely ARHL in older fallers was not associated with gait disorders in the studied population....
Individuals with Parkinson's disease (PD) and freezing of gait (FOG) have difficulty initiating and maintaining a healthy gait pattern; however, the relationship among FOG severity, gait initiation, a...
Music Therapy (MT) is a unique treatment method for Persons with Multiple Sclerosis (PwMS) that can accelerate their functional recovery. MT has been proven to adjust the gait performance of PwMS in a...
This review aimed to systematically examine the outcomes of PwMS with gait disorders after receiving MT intervention....
A systematic review has been performed using several academic databases with keywords such as music therapy, multiple sclerosis, and gait. The study protocol was registered on PROSPERO (CRD42022365668...
A total of 405 studies were initially identified. After applying the inclusion and exclusion criteria, twelve studies were finally included. The results showed that all PwMS received MT intervention w...
Most previous studies focused on the transient effects of MT on the gait performance of PwMS. This review bridges gaps in the long-term intervention of MT on gait disorders of PwMS and offers referenc...
Patients with advanced Parkinson's disease often suffer from severe gait and balance problems, impacting quality of live and persisting despite optimization of standard therapies. The aim of this revi...
Freezing in the levodopa-medicated-state (ON-state) is a debilitating feature of Parkinson's disease without treatment options. Studies detailing the distinguishing features between people with freezi...
To characterize the gross motor, gait, and non-motor features of this phenotype....
Instrumented continuous gait was collected in the levodopa-medicated-state in 105 patients: 43 non-freezers (no-FOG), 36 with freezing only OFF-levodopa (OFF-FOG) and 26 with freezing both ON- and OFF...
Compared to OFF-FOG, the ONOFF-FOG group had greater disease severity (on the Unified Parkinson's disease Rating Scale) and worse cognition (on the Montreal Cognitive Assessment, Frontal Assessment Ba...
Intra-patient variability in spatiotemporal gait features was much greater in ONOFF-FOG than in the other two groups. Our results suggest that multifactorial deficits may lead to ONOFF-FOG development...
