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Does Nordic Walking restore the temporal organization of gait variability in Parkinson’s disease?

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Title
Does Nordic Walking restore the temporal organization of gait variability in Parkinson’s disease?
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Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation, February 2017
DOI 10.1186/s12984-017-0226-1
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Thibault Warlop, Christine Detrembleur, Maïté Buxes Lopez, Gaëtan Stoquart, Thierry Lejeune, Anne Jeanjean

Abstract

Gait disorders of Parkinson's disease (PD) are characterized by the breakdown of the temporal organization of stride duration variability that was tightly associated to dynamic instability in PD. Activating the upper body during walking, Nordic Walking (NW) may be used as an external cueing to improve spatiotemporal parameters of gait, such as stride length or gait variability, in PD. The aim of this study was to evaluate the beneficial effects of NW on temporal organization of gait variability and spatiotemporal gait variables in PD. Fourteen mild to moderate PD participants and ten age-matched healthy subjects performed 2 × 12 min overground walking sessions (with and without pole in a randomized order) at a comfortable speed. Gait speed, cadence, step length and temporal organization (i.e. long-range autocorrelations; LRA) of stride duration variability were studied on 512 consecutive gait cycles using a unidimensional accelerometer placed on the malleola of the most affected side in PD patients and of the dominant side in healthy controls. The presence of LRA was determined using the Rescaled Range Analysis (Hurst exponent) and the Power Spectral Density (α exponent). To assess NW and disease influences on gait, paired t-tests, Z-score and a two-way (pathological condition x walking condition) ANOVA repeated measure were used. Leading to significant improvement of LRA, NW enhances step length and reduces gait cadence without any change in gait speed in PD. Interestingly, LRA and step length collected from the NW session are similar to that of the healthy population. This cross-sectional controlled study demonstrates that NW may constitute a powerful way to struggle against the randomness of PD gait and the typical gait hypokinesia. Involving a voluntary intersegmental coordination, such improvement could also be due to the upper body rhythmic movements acting as rhythmical external cue to bypass their defective basal ganglia circuitries. B403201318916 TRIAL REGISTRATION: NCT02419768.

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 32 15%
Student > Master 28 13%
Student > Ph. D. Student 22 10%
Researcher 14 7%
Student > Doctoral Student 9 4%
Other 33 16%
Unknown 72 34%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Nursing and Health Professions 36 17%
Medicine and Dentistry 30 14%
Neuroscience 18 9%
Engineering 9 4%
Sports and Recreations 9 4%
Other 27 13%
Unknown 81 39%
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