A Randomized, Controlled Trial of Exercise for Parkinsonian Individuals With Freezing of Gait.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Exercises with motor complexity induce neuroplasticity in individuals with Parkinson's disease (PD), but its effects on freezing of gait are unknown. The objective of this study was to verify if adapted resistance training with instability - exercises with motor complexity will be more effective than traditional motor rehabilitation - exercises without motor complexity in improving freezing-of-gait severity, outcomes linked to freezing of gait, and brain function.

Methods

Freezers were randomized either to the adapted resistance training with instability group (n = 17) or to the active control group (traditional motor rehabilitation, n = 15). Both training groups performed exercises 3 times a week for 12 weeks. The primary outcome was the New Freezing of Gait Ques

SUBMITTER: Silva-Batista C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7722148 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature