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Good vibrations: tactile cueing for freezing of gait in Parkinson’s disease by E. C. Klaver; J. P. P. van Vugt; B. R. Bloem; R. J. A. van Wezel; J. Nonnekes; M. C. Tjepkema-Cloostermans is a Medicine article available to read on EtoBox.

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## Background Cueing strategies can alleviate freezing of gait (FOG) in people with Parkinson’s disease (PD). We evaluated tactile cueing delivered via vibrating socks, which has the benefit of not being noticeable to bystanders. ## Objective To evaluate the effect of tactile cueing compared to auditory cueing on FOG. ## Methods Thirty-one persons with PD with FOG performed gait tasks during both ON and OFF state. The effect of open loop and closed loop tactile cueing, as delivered by vibrating socks, was compared to an active control group (auditory cueing) and to a baseline condition (uncued gait). These four conditions were balanced between subjects. Gait tasks were videotaped and annotated for FOG by two experienced raters. Motion data were collected to analyze spatiotemporal gait parameters. Responders were defined as manifesting a relative reduction of > 10% in the percent time frozen compared to uncued gait. ## Results The average percent time frozen during uncued gait was 11.2% in ON and 21.5% in OFF state. None of the three tested cueing modalities affected the percentage of time frozen in either the ON (__p__ = 0.20) or OFF state (__p__ = 0.12). The number of FOG episodes

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Author

E. C. Klaver; J. P. P. van Vugt; B. R. Bloem; R. J. A. van Wezel; J. Nonnekes; M. C. Tjepkema-Cloostermans

Publisher

Springer Science and Business Media LLC

Published

2023

Language

EN

Field

Medicine (Health Sciences)