Improvement of freezing of gait in patients with Parkinson's disease by imagining bicycling

Akio Kikuchi; Toru Baba; Takafumi Hasegawa; Naoto Sugeno; Masatoshi Konno; Emiko Miura; Ryuji Oshima; Masashi Aoki; Atsushi Takeda

doi:10.1159/000362119

Improvement of freezing of gait in patients with Parkinson's disease by imagining bicycling

Akio Kikuchi, Toru Baba, Takafumi Hasegawa, Naoto Sugeno, Masatoshi Konno, Emiko Miura, Ryuji Oshima, Masashi Aoki, Atsushi Takeda

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Tohoku University

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	92-95
Number of pages	4
Journal	Case Reports in Neurology
Volume	6
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1159/000362119
Publication status	Published - 2014

Keywords

Freezing of gait
Imagining bicycling
Parkinson's disease

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