Short-term and practice effects of metronome pacing in Parkinson's disease patients with gait freezing while in the 'on' state: Randomized single blind evaluation

Parkinsonism and Related Disorders

Volumn 10, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 507-510

  Cubo, Esther ^a,b,c   Leurgans, Sue ^b   Goetz, Christopher G ^b  

^a Sanatorio del Rosario   (Spain)

^b RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c 1F 28025 Spain ^*  (Spain)

Author keywords

Freezing; Metronome; Parkinson's disease

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE; FEMALE; GAIT; GAIT DISORDER; HUMAN; MALE; MOBILIZATION; PARKINSON DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TAPE RECORDER; VIDEORECORDER; WALKING;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AGED; FEMALE; GAIT DISORDERS, NEUROLOGIC; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARKINSON DISEASE; PRACTICE (PSYCHOLOGY); SINGLE-BLIND METHOD;

EID: 8444224234     PISSN: 13538020     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.parkreldis.2004.05.001     Document Type: Article

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