Impact of a weekly dance class on the functional mobility and on the quality of life of individuals with Parkinson's disease

Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience

Volumn 3, Issue OCT, 2011, Pages 1-15

  Heiberger, Lisa ^a   Maurer, Christoph ^a   Amtage, Florian ^a   Mendez Balbuena, Ignacio ^a   Schulte Mönting, Jürgen ^b   Hepp Reymond, Marie Claude ^c   Kristeva, Rumyana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b Institute for Medical Biometry and Medical Informatics   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Dance; Intervention; Motor scores; Parkinson disease; Quality of life; Rigidity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859724570     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16634365     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnagi.2011.00014     Document Type: Article

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