Emerging therapies for gait disability and balance impairment: Promises and pitfalls

Postural Sway and Effect of Levodopa in Early Parkinson's Disease

(2014) Anne Beuter et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF NEUROLOGICAL SCIENCES

V-TIME: a treadmill training program augmented by virtual reality to decrease fall risk in older adults: study design of a randomized controlled trial

(2013) Anat Mirelman et al.   BMC Neurology

Nigral stimulation for resistant axial motor impairment in Parkinson’s disease? A randomized controlled trial

(2013) Daniel Weiss et al.   BRAIN

Quantitative wearable sensors for objective assessment of Parkinson's disease

(2013) Walter Maetzler et al.   MOVEMENT DISORDERS

Functional disturbance of the locomotor network in progressive supranuclear palsy

(2013) A. Zwergal et al.   NEUROLOGY

Effectiveness of occupational therapy in Parkinson’s disease: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial

(2013) Ingrid HWM Sturkenboom et al.   Trials

Promotion of physical activity and fitness in sedentary patients with Parkinson's disease: randomised controlled trial

(2013) M. van Nimwegen et al.   BMJ-British Medical Journal

Cerebral pathological and compensatory mechanisms in the premotor phase of leucine-rich repeat kinase 2 parkinsonism

(2012) B. F. L. van Nuenen et al.   BRAIN

Validity of a Smartphone-based instrumented Timed Up and Go

(2012) Sabato Mellone et al.   GAIT & POSTURE

Ten year survival and outcomes in a prospective cohort of new onset Chinese Parkinson's disease patients

(2012) Man Auyeung et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROLOGY NEUROSURGERY AND PSYCHIATRY

Normal and pathological gait: what we learn from Parkinson's disease: Figure 1

(2012) David Grabli et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROLOGY NEUROSURGERY AND PSYCHIATRY

Compensatory Activity in the Extrastriate Body Area of Parkinson's Disease Patients

(2012) B. F. L. van Nuenen et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Effect of physical inactivity on major non-communicable diseases worldwide: an analysis of burden of disease and life expectancy

(2012) I-Min Lee et al.   LANCET

Video capture of the circumstances of falls in elderly people residing in long-term care: an observational study

(2012) Stephen N Robinovitch et al.   LANCET

Methylphenidate for gait hypokinesia and freezing in patients with Parkinson's disease undergoing subthalamic stimulation: a multicentre, parallel, randomised, placebo-controlled trial

(2012) Caroline Moreau et al.   LANCET NEUROLOGY

Lifting the “FOG” With Laser Generated Visual-Cueing

(2012) Jay A. Van Gerpen et al.   NEUROLOGIST

"On" state freezing of gait in Parkinson disease: A paradoxical levodopa-induced complication

(2012) A. J. Espay et al.   NEUROLOGY

Video game-based coordinative training improves ataxia in children with degenerative ataxia

(2012) W. Ilg et al.   NEUROLOGY

Turning and unilateral cueing in Parkinson's disease patients with and without freezing of gait

(2012) J. Spildooren et al.   NEUROSCIENCE

Tai Chi and Postural Stability in Patients with Parkinson's Disease

(2012) Fuzhong Li et al.   NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE

Impaired Trunk Stability in Individuals at High Risk for Parkinson's Disease

(2012) Walter Maetzler et al.   PLoS One

Older Adults Show Preserved Equilibrium but Impaired Step Length Control in Motor-Equivalent Stabilization of Gait

(2012) Julius Verrel et al.   PLoS One

A cognitive-motor intervention using a dance video game to enhance foot placement accuracy and gait under dual task conditions in older adults: a randomized controlled trial

(2012) Giuseppe Pichierri et al.   BMC Geriatrics

Gait alterations in healthy carriers of the LRRK2 G2019S mutation

(2011) Anat Mirelman et al.   ANNALS OF NEUROLOGY

A Training Program to Improve Gait While Dual Tasking in Patients With Parkinson's Disease: A Pilot Study

(2011) Galit Yogev-Seligmann et al.   ARCHIVES OF PHYSICAL MEDICINE AND REHABILITATION

The interplay between gait, falls and cognition: can cognitive therapy reduce fall risk?

(2011) Orit Segev-Jacubovski et al.   Expert Review of Neurotherapeutics

Combined stimulation of the substantia nigra pars reticulata and the subthalamic nucleus is effective in hypokinetic gait disturbance in Parkinson’s disease

(2011) Daniel Weiss et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROLOGY

Physical inactivity in Parkinson’s disease

(2011) Marlies Nimwegen et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROLOGY

Advances in imaging in Parkinson's disease

(2011) A Jon Stoessl et al.   LANCET NEUROLOGY

Freezing of gait: moving forward on a mysterious clinical phenomenon

(2011) John G Nutt et al.   LANCET NEUROLOGY

Bicycling breaks the ice for freezers of gait

(2011) Anke H. Snijders et al.   MOVEMENT DISORDERS

Fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography in Richardson's syndrome and progressive supranuclear palsy-parkinsonism

(2011) Karin Srulijes et al.   MOVEMENT DISORDERS

How might physical activity benefit patients with Parkinson disease?

(2011) Arlène D. Speelman et al.   Nature Reviews Neurology

Postural imbalance and falls in PSP correlate with functional pathology of the thalamus

(2011) A. Zwergal et al.   NEUROLOGY

Which measures of physical function and motor impairment best predict quality of life in Parkinson’s disease?

(2011) T. Ellis et al.   PARKINSONISM & RELATED DISORDERS

Testing balance and fall risk in persons with Parkinson disease, an argument for ecologically valid testing

(2011) K.B. Foreman et al.   PARKINSONISM & RELATED DISORDERS

Freezer or non-freezer: Clinical assessment of freezing of gait

(2011) Anke H. Snijders et al.   PARKINSONISM & RELATED DISORDERS

Relationships between age and late progression of Parkinson's disease: a clinico-pathological study

(2010) P. A. Kempster et al.   BRAIN

Deep brain stimulation of the pedunculopontine tegmentum and subthalamic nucleus: Effects on gait in Parkinson's disease

(2010) A. Peppe et al.   GAIT & POSTURE

Cholinergic mesencephalic neurons are involved in gait and postural disorders in Parkinson disease

(2010) Carine Karachi et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL INVESTIGATION

Virtual Reality for Gait Training: Can It Induce Motor Learning to Enhance Complex Walking and Reduce Fall Risk in Patients With Parkinson's Disease?

(2010) A. Mirelman et al.   JOURNALS OF GERONTOLOGY SERIES A-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES AND MEDICAL SCIENCES

Medical treatment of freezing of gait

(2010) Nir Giladi   MOVEMENT DISORDERS

Objective measurement of dyskinesia in Parkinson's disease using a force plate

(2010) Kathryn A. Chung et al.   MOVEMENT DISORDERS

Targeting dopa-sensitive and dopa-resistant gait dysfunction in Parkinson's disease: Selective responses to internal and external cues

(2010) Lynn Rochester et al.   MOVEMENT DISORDERS

Comparing exercise in Parkinson's disease-the Berlin BIG Study

(2010) Georg Ebersbach et al.   MOVEMENT DISORDERS

Predictors of future falls in Parkinson disease

(2010) G. K. Kerr et al.   NEUROLOGY

A meta-regression of the long-term effects of deep brain stimulation on balance and gait in PD

(2010) R. J. St. George et al.   NEUROLOGY

Effects of a central cholinesterase inhibitor on reducing falls in Parkinson disease

(2010) K. A. Chung et al.   NEUROLOGY

Shifting the balance: evidence of an exploratory role for postural sway

(2010) M.G. Carpenter et al.   NEUROSCIENCE

Estimation of Free-Living Energy Expenditure Using a Novel Activity Monitor Designed to Minimize Obtrusiveness

(2010) Alberto G. Bonomi et al.   Obesity

Laserlight cues for gait freezing in Parkinson’s disease: An open-label study

(2010) S. Donovan et al.   PARKINSONISM & RELATED DISORDERS

Determinants of health-related quality of life in Parkinson’s disease: A systematic review

(2010) Sze-Ee Soh et al.   PARKINSONISM & RELATED DISORDERS

Use of virtual reality technique for the training of motor control in the elderly

(2010) E.D. de Bruin et al.   ZEITSCHRIFT FUR GERONTOLOGIE UND GERIATRIE

Gait dynamics in Parkinson’s disease: Common and distinct behavior among stride length, gait variability, and fractal-like scaling

(2009) Jeffrey M. Hausdorff   CHAOS

Short duration, intensive tango dancing for Parkinson disease: An uncontrolled pilot study

(2009) Madeleine E. Hackney et al.   COMPLEMENTARY THERAPIES IN MEDICINE

Postural instability in Parkinson’s disease: the adrenergic hypothesis and the locus coeruleus

(2009) Yvette AM Grimbergen et al.   Expert Review of Neurotherapeutics

Reliability of the new freezing of gait questionnaire: Agreement between patients with Parkinson's disease and their carers

(2009) Alice Nieuwboer et al.   GAIT & POSTURE

Clinical and physiological assessments for elucidating falls risk in Parkinson's disease

(2009) Mark D. Latt et al.   MOVEMENT DISORDERS

Rehabilitation treatment of gait in patients with Parkinson's disease with freezing: A comparison between two physical therapy protocols using visual and auditory cues with or without treadmill training

(2009) Giuseppe Frazzitta et al.   MOVEMENT DISORDERS

Real versus imagined locomotion: A [18F]-FDG PET-fMRI comparison

(2009) Christian la Fougère et al.   NEUROIMAGE

History of falls in Parkinson disease is associated with reduced cholinergic activity

(2009) N. I. Bohnen et al.   NEUROLOGY

The clinical utility of posturography

(2008) Jasper E. Visser et al.   CLINICAL NEUROPHYSIOLOGY

Subthalamic nucleus stimulation and levodopa-resistant postural instability in Parkinson's disease

(2008) J. E. Visser et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROLOGY

Systems Neuroplasticity in the Aging Brain: Recruiting Additional Neural Resources for Successful Motor Performance in Elderly Persons

(2008) S. Heuninckx et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Nordic walking improves mobility in Parkinson's disease

(2008) Frank J.M. van Eijkeren et al.   MOVEMENT DISORDERS

Improved asymmetry of gait in Parkinson's disease with DBS: Gait and postural instability in Parkinson's disease treated with bilateral deep brain stimulation in the subthalamic nucleus

(2008) Erik L. Johnsen et al.   MOVEMENT DISORDERS

Physical therapy in Parkinson's disease: Evolution and future challenges

(2008) Samyra H.J. Keus et al.   MOVEMENT DISORDERS

A randomized controlled trial of movement strategies compared with exercise for people with Parkinson's disease

(2008) Meg E. Morris et al.   MOVEMENT DISORDERS

Cerebral correlates of motor imagery of normal and precision gait

(2008) M. Bakker et al.   NEUROIMAGE

Effects of subthalamic nucleus stimulation and levodopa on freezing of gait in Parkinson disease

(2008) M. U. Ferraye et al.   NEUROLOGY

Determinants of disability and quality of life in mild to moderate Parkinson disease

(2008) D. Muslimovic et al.   NEUROLOGY

Mind the bend: cerebral activations associated with mental imagery of walking along a curved path

(2008) Judith Wagner et al.   EXPERIMENTAL BRAIN RESEARCH