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A Patient-Invented Maneuver to Alleviate Freezing of Gait Using a Foot Loop Band
Freezing of gait (FOG) is a disabling gait disorder in parkinsonian patients characterized by the inability to initiate or continue locomotion. I herein present a 65-year-old man with Parkinson's disease who invented a unique method (foot loop band) to alleviate FOG, which has not been previous...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4337170/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25759657 http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000369059 |
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description | Freezing of gait (FOG) is a disabling gait disorder in parkinsonian patients characterized by the inability to initiate or continue locomotion. I herein present a 65-year-old man with Parkinson's disease who invented a unique method (foot loop band) to alleviate FOG, which has not been previously described in the literature. The mechanisms to alleviate FOG include not only facilitating mechanical weight shift, but also restoring internal cueing and driving motor commands for gait initiation. This patient-invented maneuver may be recommended for patients having intractable FOG, because it is portable, cheap and safe. |
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spelling | pubmed-43371702015-03-10 A Patient-Invented Maneuver to Alleviate Freezing of Gait Using a Foot Loop Band Okuma, Yasuyuki Case Rep Neurol Published online: November, 2014 Freezing of gait (FOG) is a disabling gait disorder in parkinsonian patients characterized by the inability to initiate or continue locomotion. I herein present a 65-year-old man with Parkinson's disease who invented a unique method (foot loop band) to alleviate FOG, which has not been previously described in the literature. The mechanisms to alleviate FOG include not only facilitating mechanical weight shift, but also restoring internal cueing and driving motor commands for gait initiation. This patient-invented maneuver may be recommended for patients having intractable FOG, because it is portable, cheap and safe. S. Karger AG 2014-11-07 /pmc/articles/PMC4337170/ /pubmed/25759657 http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000369059 Text en Copyright © 2014 by S. Karger AG, Basel http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an Open Access article licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC) (www.karger.com/OA-license), applicable to the online version of the article only. Users may download, print and share this work on the Internet for noncommercial purposes only, provided the original work is properly cited, and a link to the original work on http://www.karger.com and the terms of this license are included in any shared versions. |
spellingShingle | Published online: November, 2014 Okuma, Yasuyuki A Patient-Invented Maneuver to Alleviate Freezing of Gait Using a Foot Loop Band |
title | A Patient-Invented Maneuver to Alleviate Freezing of Gait Using a Foot Loop Band |
title_full | A Patient-Invented Maneuver to Alleviate Freezing of Gait Using a Foot Loop Band |
title_fullStr | A Patient-Invented Maneuver to Alleviate Freezing of Gait Using a Foot Loop Band |
title_full_unstemmed | A Patient-Invented Maneuver to Alleviate Freezing of Gait Using a Foot Loop Band |
title_short | A Patient-Invented Maneuver to Alleviate Freezing of Gait Using a Foot Loop Band |
title_sort | patient-invented maneuver to alleviate freezing of gait using a foot loop band |
topic | Published online: November, 2014 |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4337170/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25759657 http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000369059 |
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