Trial reportJournal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation2017
Does Nordic Walking restore the temporal organization of gait variability in Parkinson's disease?
Trial report in Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT02419768 (Locomotion of Parkinsonian Patient), which is not on this map. Cited by 16 papers.
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Locomotion of Parkinsonian Patient: Are There Relations Between the Long Range Autocorrelations and the Neurological Impairments, Walking Abilities and the Practice of Physical Exercise?
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16 citing papers in PubMed, 35 citations in OpenAlex.
- Dataset on Gait Analysis of Parkinsonian Subjects: Effect of Nordic Walking.Scientific data · 2025Article
- Nordic walking and arm swing asymmetry in people with Parkinson's disease: protocol for a randomised clinical trial.BMJ open sport & exercise medicine · 2024Article
- Carpets with visual cues can improve gait in Parkinson's disease patients: may be independent of executive function.European journal of medical research · 2023Article
- Effects of nordic walking exercise on gait, motor/non-motor symptoms, and serum brain-derived neurotrophic factor in individuals with Parkinson's disease.Frontiers in rehabilitation sciences · 2022Article
- The Proper Diet and Regular Physical Activity Slow Down the Development of Parkinson Disease.Aging and disease · 2021Review
- Step Length Is a Promising Progression Marker in Parkinson's Disease.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Spatiotemporal characteristics of locomotor adaptation of walking with two handheld poles.Experimental brain research · 2020Article
- Effectiveness of 6-Week Nordic Walking Training on Functional Performance, Gait Quality, and Quality of Life in Parkinson's Disease.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2020Article
- Entropy of Real-World Gait in Parkinson's Disease Determined from Wearable Sensors as a Digital Marker of Altered Ambulatory Behavior.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020Article
- Overcoming randomness does not rule out the importance of inherent randomness for functionality.Journal of biosciences · 2019Review
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- Assessing Gait in Parkinson's Disease Using Wearable Motion Sensors: A Systematic Review.Diseases (Basel, Switzerland) · 2019Review
- The Therapeutic Effect of Nordic Walking on Freezing of Gait in Parkinson's Disease: A Pilot Study.Parkinson's disease · 2019Article
- Gait Complexity and Regularity Are Differently Modulated by Treadmill Walking in Parkinson's Disease and Healthy Population.Frontiers in physiology · 2018Article
- Complexity Matching: Restoring the Complexity of Locomotion in Older People Through Arm-in-Arm Walking.Frontiers in physiology · 2018Article
- Metabolic and kinematic parameters during walking with poles in Parkinson's disease.Journal of neurology · 2017Article
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Abstract
backgroundGait 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.
methodsFourteen 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.
resultsLeading 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.
conclusionThis 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. ETHICS COMMITTEE'S REFERENCE NUMBER: B403201318916
trial registrationNCT02419768.
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