Freezing of gait in Parkinson's disease: The impact of dual-tasking and turning

Movement Disorders

Volumn 25, Issue 15, 2010, Pages 2563-2570

  Spildooren, Joke ^a,d   Vercruysse, Sarah ^a   Desloovere, Kaat ^b   Vandenberghe, Wim ^a   Kerckhofs, Eric ^c   Nieuwboer, Alice ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^d Vrije Universiteit Brussel ^*  (Belgium)

Author keywords

Dual task; Freezing of gait; Turning

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FREEZING OF GAIT; GAIT DISORDER; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; PARKINSON DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; WALKING;

AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; GAIT; GAIT DISORDERS, NEUROLOGIC; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MOVEMENT; PARKINSON DISEASE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; WALKING;

EID: 78349269482     PISSN: 08853185     EISSN: 15318257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mds.23327     Document Type: Article

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