Walking to your right music: a randomized controlled trial on the novel use of treadmill plus music in Parkinson's disease.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Rhythmic Auditory Stimulation (RAS) can compensate for the loss of automatic and rhythmic movements in patients with idiopathic Parkinson's disease (PD). However, the neurophysiological mechanisms underlying the effects of RAS are still poorly understood. We aimed at identifying which mechanisms sustain gait improvement in a cohort of patients with PD who practiced RAS gait training.

Methods

We enrolled 50 patients with PD who were randomly assigned to two different modalities of treadmill gait training using GaitTrainer3 with and without RAS (non_RAS) during an 8-week training program. We measured clinical, kinematic, and electrophysiological effects of both the gait trainings.

Results

We found a greater improvement in Functional Gait Assessment (p < 0.001

SUBMITTER: Calabro RS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6555981 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature