Improvement of Freezing of Gait in Patients with Parkinson's Disease by Imagining Bicycling
Freezing of gait (FOG) is one of the factors that reduce the quality of life in patients with Parkinson's disease (PD). Imagining bicycling before gait start provided improvement in FOG in 2 PD patients. Imagining and mimicking bicycling after the initiation of gait allowed the rhythmic gait to...
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doaj-132a06fd5aa44d579d27cbe63ea64eb92020-11-24T23:56:34ZengKarger PublishersCase Reports in Neurology1662-680X2014-03-0161929510.1159/000362119362119Improvement of Freezing of Gait in Patients with Parkinson's Disease by Imagining BicyclingAkio KikuchiToru BabaTakafumi HasegawaNaoto SugenoMasatoshi KonnoEmiko MiuraRyuji OshimaMasashi AokiAtsushi TakedaFreezing of gait (FOG) is one of the factors that reduce the quality of life in patients with Parkinson's disease (PD). Imagining bicycling before gait start provided improvement in FOG in 2 PD patients. Imagining and mimicking bicycling after the initiation of gait allowed the rhythmic gait to continue without interruption. We suggest that imagining and mimicking bicycling, which are nonexternal cues, could serve as a helpful therapeutic approach for the intractable freezing and interruption of gait of PD patients.http://www.karger.com/Article/FullText/362119Freezing of gaitParkinson’s diseaseImagining bicycling |
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Akio Kikuchi Toru Baba Takafumi Hasegawa Naoto Sugeno Masatoshi Konno Emiko Miura Ryuji Oshima Masashi Aoki Atsushi Takeda |
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Akio Kikuchi Toru Baba Takafumi Hasegawa Naoto Sugeno Masatoshi Konno Emiko Miura Ryuji Oshima Masashi Aoki Atsushi Takeda Improvement of Freezing of Gait in Patients with Parkinson's Disease by Imagining Bicycling Case Reports in Neurology Freezing of gait Parkinson’s disease Imagining bicycling |
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Akio Kikuchi Toru Baba Takafumi Hasegawa Naoto Sugeno Masatoshi Konno Emiko Miura Ryuji Oshima Masashi Aoki Atsushi Takeda |
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Akio Kikuchi |
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Improvement of Freezing of Gait in Patients with Parkinson's Disease by Imagining Bicycling |
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Improvement of Freezing of Gait in Patients with Parkinson's Disease by Imagining Bicycling |
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Improvement of Freezing of Gait in Patients with Parkinson's Disease by Imagining Bicycling |
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Improvement of Freezing of Gait in Patients with Parkinson's Disease by Imagining Bicycling |
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Improvement of Freezing of Gait in Patients with Parkinson's Disease by Imagining Bicycling |
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improvement of freezing of gait in patients with parkinson's disease by imagining bicycling |
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Karger Publishers |
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Case Reports in Neurology |
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1662-680X |
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2014-03-01 |
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Freezing of gait (FOG) is one of the factors that reduce the quality of life in patients with Parkinson's disease (PD). Imagining bicycling before gait start provided improvement in FOG in 2 PD patients. Imagining and mimicking bicycling after the initiation of gait allowed the rhythmic gait to continue without interruption. We suggest that imagining and mimicking bicycling, which are nonexternal cues, could serve as a helpful therapeutic approach for the intractable freezing and interruption of gait of PD patients. |
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Freezing of gait Parkinson’s disease Imagining bicycling |
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http://www.karger.com/Article/FullText/362119 |
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