Gait Kinematic Parameters in Parkinson's Disease: A Systematic Review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Gait impairments are common and highly disabling for Parkinson's disease (PD) patients. With the development of technology-based tools, it is now possible to measure the spatiotemporal parameters of gait with a reduced margin of error, thereby enabling a more accurate characterization of impairment.

Objective

To summarize and critically appraise the characteristics of technology-based gait analysis in PD and to provide mean and standard deviation values for spatiotemporal gait parameters.

Methods

A systematic review was conducted using the databases CENTRAL, MEDLINE, Embase, and PEDro from their inception to September 2019 to identify all observational and experimental studies conducted in PD or atypical parkinsonism that included a technology-based gait as

SUBMITTER: Bouca-Machado R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7458503 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature