Recent advances in the assessment and treatment of falls in Parkinson's disease

Falls are among the most incapacitating features of Parkinson's disease. Prevention of falls requires a systematic assessment of all contributing factors (with emphasis on freezing of gait and frontal executive dysfunction), and a multidisciplinary treatment approach tailored to the specific pa...

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Autores principales: Snijders, Anke H, Nonnekes, Jorik, Bloem, Bastiaan R
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Faculty of 1000 Ltd 2010
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Review Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2981191/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21173838
http://dx.doi.org/10.3410/M2-76
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spelling pubmed-29811912010-12-20 Recent advances in the assessment and treatment of falls in Parkinson's disease Snijders, Anke H Nonnekes, Jorik Bloem, Bastiaan R F1000 Med Rep Review Article Falls are among the most incapacitating features of Parkinson's disease. Prevention of falls requires a systematic assessment of all contributing factors (with emphasis on freezing of gait and frontal executive dysfunction), and a multidisciplinary treatment approach tailored to the specific pathophysiology of falls for each individual patient. Faculty of 1000 Ltd 2010-10-21 /pmc/articles/PMC2981191/ /pubmed/21173838 http://dx.doi.org/10.3410/M2-76 Text en © 2010 Faculty of 1000 Ltd http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/legalcode This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. You may not use this work for commercial purposes
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title_full Recent advances in the assessment and treatment of falls in Parkinson's disease
title_fullStr Recent advances in the assessment and treatment of falls in Parkinson's disease
title_full_unstemmed Recent advances in the assessment and treatment of falls in Parkinson's disease
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