Gait Characteristics under Imposed Challenge Speed Conditions in Patients with Parkinson's Disease During Overground Walking.

ABSTRACT: Evaluating gait stability at slower or faster speeds and self-preferred speeds based on continuous steps may assist in determining the severity of motor symptoms in Parkinson's disease (PD) patients. This study aimed to investigate the gait ability at imposed speed conditions in PD patients during overground walking. Overall, 74 PD patients and 52 age-matched healthy controls were recruited. Levodopa was administered to patients in the PD group, and all participants completed imposed slower, preferred, and faster speed walking tests along a straight 15-m walkway wearing shoe-type inertial measurement units. Reliability of the slower and faster conditions between the estimated and measured speeds indicated excellent agreement for PD patients and controls. PD patients demonstrated higher gai

SUBMITTER: Lee M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7181203 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature