Combined Reactive and Volitional Step Training Improves Balance Recovery and Stepping Reaction Time in People With Parkinson's Disease: A Randomised Controlled Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Falls are frequent and devastating events for people with Parkinson's disease (PD). Here, we investigated whether laboratory-based reactive step training combined with home-based volitional step training was effective in improving balance recovery and stepping ability in people with PD.

Methods

Forty-four people with idiopathic PD were randomized into intervention or control groups. Intervention participants performed unsupervised volitional step training using home-based exergames (80+ minutes/week) for 12 weeks and attended reactive step training sessions in which they were exposed to slip and trip perturbations at 4 and 8 weeks. Control participants continued their usual activities. Primary outcomes were balance recovery following an induced-trip/slip and choic

SUBMITTER: Pelicioni PHS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10666522 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature