A Patient-Invented Maneuver to Alleviate Freezing of Gait Using a Foot Loop Band

Freezing of gait (FOG) is a disabling gait disorder in parkinsonian patients characterized by the inability to initiate or continue locomotion. I herein present a 65-year-old man with Parkinson's disease who invented a unique method (foot loop band) to alleviate FOG, which has not been previous...

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Main Author: Yasuyuki Okuma
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Karger Publishers 2014-11-01
Series:Case Reports in Neurology
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Online Access:http://www.karger.com/Article/FullText/369059