Moving forward with prisms: sensory-motor adaptation improves gait initiation in Parkinson's disease.

It is postulated that the decreased walking speed; small, shuffling steps; and "freezing" shown by patients with Parkinson's disease could stem from an inability to tilt the body forward enough to provide sufficient forward propulsion. In two repeated-measures studies we examined whet...

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Main Authors: Bultitude, J, Rafal, R, Tinker, C
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: 2012