Towards increased gait flexibility in Parkinson’s disease. KU Leuven
In the first stage of this study, we investigated the retention effects of a novel split-belt training (SBT) intervention in patients with Parkinson’s disease (PD). The proof-of-principle is based on inducing asymmetric gait by inducing split-belt perturbations in order to address core gait deficits underlying freezing of gait (FOG). The preliminary results strongly suggest that even one session of SBT provoked a more adaptive gait pattern, ...