The effect of doorway characteristics on freezing of gait in Parkinson's disease.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Freezing of gait is a debilitating symptom in Parkinson's disease, during which a sudden motor block prevents someone from moving forward. Remarkably, doorways can provoke freezing. Most research has focused on the influence of doorway width, and little is known about other doorway characteristics influencing doorway freezing.

Objective

Firstly, to provide guidelines on how to design doorways for people with freezing. Secondly, to compare people with doorway freezing to people without doorway freezing, and to explore the underlying mechanisms of doorway freezing.

Methods

We designed a web-based, structured survey consisting of two parts. Part I (n = 171 responders), open to people with Parkinson's disease with freezing in general, aimed to compare pe

SUBMITTER: Cockx HM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10726031 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature