Parkinsonian gait


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Parkinsonian gait

A slow, shuffling, short-stepped gait, which is typical of pyramidal tract disease, prototypically occurring in Parkinson’s disease.
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The characteristic Parkinsonian gait pattern has several hypokinetic features including reduced stride length, velocity and step height resulting in short shuffling steps, associated with a flexed posture and poor arm swing (Peppe, Chiavalon, Pasqualetti, Crovato, & Caltagirone, 2007).
This together with a reduced arm swing and stooped posture gives the presentation of a Parkinsonian gait pattern (Friedman, 2012).
There are, however, some characteristic differences between an ageing gait and a Parkinsonian gait, which may only be observed through clinical gait analysis and analysis of spatiotemporal, kinematic and kinetic data.
The effects of levodopa on gait in Parkinson's disease
Winogrodzka A, Wagenaar RC, Booij J, Wolters EC, 2005, Rigidity and bradykinesia reduce interlimb coordination in Parkinsonian gait.
Performance of obstacle stepping in patients with Parkinson's disease
We sought to examine the effect of a wearable, closed-loop, visual-auditory cueing system on parkinsonian gait in the "off" state, when the magnitude of gait impairment is expected to be largest.
At-home training with closed-loop augmented-reality cueing device for improving gait in patients with Parkinson disease
Results: At enrollment, 85 subjects had neurologic gait abnormalities of the following types: unsteady gait (in 31 subjects), frontal gait (in 12 subjects), hemiparetic gait (in 11 subjects), neuropathic gait (in 10 subjects), parkinsonian gait (in eight subjects), and spastic gait (in two subjects).
Abnormality of gait as a predictor of non-Alzheimer's dementia
McIntosh GC, Thaut MH, Rice RR, Miller RA: Stride frequency modulation in parkinsonian gait using rhythmic auditory stimulation.
Timed tests in the clinical assessment of motor function in Parkinson's disease
Our recent work exploring the effects of concurrent music on steady-state parkinsonian gait has provided further support regarding the dual and multitask limitations experienced by people with PD [10].
In dealing with these demands, it would be valuable for the management of parkinsonian gait deficits to develop multitask training protocols that extend beyond the relative simplicity of steady-state gait to include functional gait activities.
Obstacle crossing among people with Parkinson disease is influenced by concurrent music
We recently showed that the SAM is accurate in measuring Parkinsonian gait [9].
Daily ambulatory activity levels in idiopathic Parkinson disease

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