Treadmill walking as an external pacemaker to improve gait rhythm and stability in Parkinson's disease

Movement Disorders

Volumn 20, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1109-1114

  Frenkel Toledo, Silvi ^a   Giladi, Nir ^a,b   Peretz, Chava ^a,b   Herman, Talia ^b   Gruendlinger, Leor ^b   Hausdorff, Jeffrey M ^a,b,c  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Cueing; Gait; Pacemaker; Parkinson's disease; Physical therapy; Treadmill

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GAIT DISORDER; HUMAN; KINESIOTHERAPY; MALE; PARKINSON DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TIME; TREADMILL EXERCISE; WALKING; WALKING AID; WALKING SPEED;

ANTHROPOMETRY; CUES; DEMOGRAPHY; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; GAIT; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PARKINSON DISEASE; PERIODICITY; PHYSICAL THERAPY MODALITIES; WALKING;

EID: 23944434536     PISSN: 08853185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mds.20507     Document Type: Article

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