The Factors that Induce or Overcome Freezing of Gait in Parkinson’s Disease

Freezing of gait (FoG), a transient halt in walking, is a major mobility problem for patients with Parkinson’s disease (PD). This study examined the factors that induce FoG, and identified the cues and strategies that help overcome it through a postal survey of 130 PD patients. 72% reported FoG. The...

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Autores principales: Rahman, S., Griffin, H. J., Quinn, N. P., Jahanshahi, M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: IOS Press 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5452481/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18641432
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2008/456298
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description Freezing of gait (FoG), a transient halt in walking, is a major mobility problem for patients with Parkinson’s disease (PD). This study examined the factors that induce FoG, and identified the cues and strategies that help overcome it through a postal survey of 130 PD patients. 72% reported FoG. The factors that commonly induced FoG were turning, fatigue, confined spaces and stressful situations, in addition to emotional factors. FoG was also ameliorated by various attentional and external cueing strategies. The concept of paradoxical kinesis, the potential neural substrates of such external cueing effects, and their importance for rehabilitation in PD are discussed.
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spelling pubmed-54524812017-06-14 The Factors that Induce or Overcome Freezing of Gait in Parkinson’s Disease Rahman, S. Griffin, H. J. Quinn, N. P. Jahanshahi, M. Behav Neurol Research Article Freezing of gait (FoG), a transient halt in walking, is a major mobility problem for patients with Parkinson’s disease (PD). This study examined the factors that induce FoG, and identified the cues and strategies that help overcome it through a postal survey of 130 PD patients. 72% reported FoG. The factors that commonly induced FoG were turning, fatigue, confined spaces and stressful situations, in addition to emotional factors. FoG was also ameliorated by various attentional and external cueing strategies. The concept of paradoxical kinesis, the potential neural substrates of such external cueing effects, and their importance for rehabilitation in PD are discussed. IOS Press 2008 2008-07-15 /pmc/articles/PMC5452481/ /pubmed/18641432 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2008/456298 Text en Copyright © 2008 Hindawi Publishing Corporation and the authors. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0 This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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