ArticleJournal of clinical medicine2022
Relationship between Lower Limbs Performance and Spinal Alignment in Parkinson's Disease Patients: An Observational Study with Cross Sectional Design.
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- Efficacy of Specific Trunk Exercises in the Balance Dysfunction of Patients with Parkinson's Disease: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Pooled it
- Lower-Limb Motor Function, Mobility, Balance, Falls and Intervention Effects in Inclusion Body Myositis: A Systematic Review.Journal of clinical medicine · 2026Review
- Comparative analysis of ground reaction forces and spatiotemporal gait parameters in older adults with sway-back posture and chronic low back pain: a cross-sectional study.BMC sports science, medicine & rehabilitation · 2025Article
- Addressing frailty in older adults: an integrated challenge for health, science, and society.Aging · 2024Article
- Gender-Specific Differences in Spinal Alignment and Muscle Power in Patients with Parkinson's Disease.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Pain in non-communicative older adults beyond dementia: a narrative review.Frontiers in medicine · 2024Review
- Effects of a Gait Training Program on Spinal Cord Injury Patients: A Single-Group Prospective Cohort Study.Journal of clinical medicine · 2023Article
- A novel method of assessing balance and postural sway in patients with hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos syndrome.Frontiers in medicine · 2023Article
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Abstract
Parkinson's disease (PD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease determining spinal deformities and muscle rigidity, weakness and dystonia that can be related to a change in muscular output during sit-to-stand tasks (STS). PURPOSE: The aim of this study was to determine the impacts of spinal alignment on lower limbs performance during STS tasks in Parkinson's disease (PD) patients and healthy controls.
methodsIn total, 43 consecutive PD patients ("PD" Group, 25 males and 18 females; age 73.7 ± 7.1) and 42 people not affected by any type of neurological disease ("CON" Group, 22 males, 20 females; age 69.8 ± 6.0) participated in the observational study. The clinical assessment included: IPAQ (International Physical Activity Questionnaire), Hoehn Yahr score, plumb-line distance from the spinous process of C7, kyphosis apex and the spinous process of L3 and S1. We used the Muscle Quality Index test (MQI) to assess muscle power output during STS in both groups.
resultsThe MQI test measurements of absolute and relative lower limb power was significantly lower in the PD group, in addition to a negative correlation with age and a positive correlation with PL-L3 in that group of patients.
conclusionsA final consideration regarding our results leads to the possibility that the preservation of lumbar lordosis may be one of the factors for maintaining efficient biomechanics of the lower limb muscles, with the preservation of the physiological contractile characteristics of these muscles being the objective for a multidisciplinary rehabilitation based on postural exercises of the spine and a program of training exercises for the lower limb muscles.
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