ArticleFrontiers in rehabilitation sciences2026
Gait and balance outcomes of group-based music therapy, physiotherapy, and simplified dance training in patients with Parkinson's disease.
Article in Frontiers in rehabilitation sciences, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
0 citing papers in PubMed.
No citing paper in PubMed yet.
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
5 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Introduction: To compare the effects of group-based music therapy, physiotherapy, and simplified dance training on gait, balance, and lower limb force production in individuals with moderate Parkinson's disease. Methods: Forty-eight participants (Hoehn & Yahr stages 2.0-3.0) were randomly allocated to music therapy ( Results: Significant baseline-adjusted between-group effects were observed. Physiotherapy showed a lower adjusted center-of-pressure sway area than control (53% lower, Discussion: Each modality produced a distinct, modality-specific pattern of benefit. Physiotherapy improved static postural control and weight-bearing symmetry; both music therapy and simplified dance training improved sit-to-stand performance; and all three improved overall mobility, with the greatest gains in dance training for gait and turning. These findings support a personalized, potentially multimodal approach to Parkinson's disease rehabilitation. The study was registered retrospectively in the World Health Organization International Clinical Trials Registry Platform (Registration No. DRKS00039213). All participants provided written informed consent.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.