Improvement of Freezing of Gait in Patients with Parkinson's Disease by Imagining Bicycling

Improvement of Freezing of Gait in Patients with Parkinson's Disease by Imagining Bicycling

Freezing of gait (FOG) is one of the factors that reduce the quality of life in patients with Parkinson's disease (PD). Imagining bicycling before gait start provided improvement in FOG in 2 PD patients. Imagining and mimicking bicycling after the initiation of gait allowed the rhythmic gait to...

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Main Authors: Akio Kikuchi, Toru Baba, Takafumi Hasegawa, Naoto Sugeno, Masatoshi Konno, Emiko Miura, Ryuji Oshima, Masashi Aoki, Atsushi Takeda
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Karger Publishers 2014-03-01
Series:Case Reports in Neurology
Subjects:
Freezing of gait
Parkinson’s disease
Imagining bicycling
Online Access:http://www.karger.com/Article/FullText/362119

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