ArticleScientific reports2018
Internal cueing improves gait more than external cueing in healthy adults and people with Parkinson disease.
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- Effects of anti-parkinsonian medication on gait during internal and external rhythmic auditory cueing in PD.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2026Article
- Digital Cueing With Laser Shoes Does Not Improve Walking in Parkinson's Disease: Evidence Across Disease Severity and Freezing Status.Neurorehabilitation and neural repair · 2025Article
- Assessing rhythm reproducibility during gait after internal rhythm-learning tasks: a pilot study in healthy adults and patients with Parkinson's disease.Journal of physical therapy science · 2025Article
- Musical Distractions: Music-Based Rhythmic Auditory Stimulation Fails to Improve Gait in Huntington's Disease.Brain sciences · 2025Article
- Personalized Auditory Rhythmic Cues to Optimize Gait in Older Adults and People With Parkinson Disease.Journal of neurologic physical therapy : JNPT · 2025Article
- A review of concurrent sonified biofeedback in balance and gait training.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation · 2025Review
- Neural mechanisms underlying synchronization of movement to musical cues in Parkinson disease and aging.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2025Article
- Feasibility and preliminary efficacy of an online home-based functional exercise program for Parkinson's disease: a pilot study.Frontiers in neurology · 2025Article
- Festination-like steps during forward and backward gait while playing tennis.Journal of Parkinson's disease · 2024Article
- Effect of musical cues on gait in individuals with Parkinson disease with comorbid dementia.Gait & posture · 2024Article
- Comparison of externally and internally guided dance movement to address mobility, cognition, and psychosocial function in people with Parkinson's disease and freezing of gait: a case series.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2024Article
- Rhythm and music for promoting sensorimotor organization in autism: broader implications for outcomes.Frontiers in integrative neuroscience · 2024Article
- Respiratory Responses to Two Voice Interventions for Parkinson's Disease.Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR · 2022Article
- Components of Active Music Interventions in Therapeutic Settings-Present and Future Applications.Brain sciences · 2022Review
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Abstract
Walking can be challenging for aging individuals and people with neurological disorders such as Parkinson disease (PD). Gait impairment characterized by reduced speed and higher variability destabilizes gait and increases the risk of falls. External auditory cueing provides an effective strategy to improve gait, as matching footfalls to rhythms typically increases gait speed and elicits larger steps, but the need to synchronize to an outside source often has a detrimental effect on gait variability. Internal cueing in the form of singing may provide an alternative to conventional gait therapy. In the present study, we compare the effects of internal and external cueing techniques on forward and backward walking for both people with PD and healthy controls. Results indicate that internal cueing was associated with improvements in gait velocity, cadence, and stride length in the backward direction, and reduced variability in both forward and backward walking. In comparison, external cueing was associated with minimal improvement in gait characteristics and a decline in gait stability. People with gait impairment due to aging or neurological decline may benefit more from internal cueing techniques such as singing as compared to external cueing techniques.
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