Improvement of freezing of gait in patients with Parkinson's disease by imagining bicycling.
Freezing of gait (FOG) is one of the factors that reduce the quality of life in patients with Parkinson's disease (PD). Imagining bicycling before gait start provided improvement in FOG in 2 PD patients. Imagining and mimicking bicycling after the initiation of gait allowed the rhythmic gait to continue without interruption. We suggest that imagining and mimicking bicycling, which are nonexternal cues, could serve as a helpful therapeutic approach for the intractable freezing and interruption of gait of PD patients.
Department of Neurology, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan.
Akio
A
Kikuchi
Department of Neurology, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan.
Toru
T
Baba
Department of Neurology, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan.
Takafumi
T
Hasegawa
Department of Neurology, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan.
Naoto
N
Sugeno
Department of Neurology, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan.
Masatoshi
M
Konno
Department of Neurology, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan.
Emiko
E
Miura
Department of Neurology, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan.
Ryuji
R
Oshima
Department of Neurology, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan.
Masashi
M
Aoki
Department of Neurology, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan.
Atsushi
A
Takeda
Freezing of gait; Imagining bicycling; Parkinson's disease