Parkinson's Disease Info : Using Sights and Sounds to Unfreeze

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Condition Overview Prevention Diagnosis Research Clinical Trials Treatments Events Lifestyle Emotional Impacts View All Dec '073 Using Sights and Sounds to Unfreeze by StaffTreatments Keeping pace with a metronome. Concentrating on taking big steps. Combining the metronome and big steps strategies. The researchers observed that all three tactic helped people walk better. Furthermore, no single approach stood out as the best. As with many things in Parkinson's disease, we encouage you to try all three strategies and adopt one or more of them according to your needs. Many of our readers have had success unfreezing using the U-Step LaserCane and Walking Stabilizer. Source: Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, December, 2007 Parkinsonism and Related Disorders, November, 2007 Related Blogs: My metronome improves walking and balance with Parkinson's disease The Metronome - Part II Related Articles 11-05-2007My Challenges with Walking, Balance and Posture in Parkinson's 10-17-2007Parkinson's Disease Foundation's Educational Symposium 11-13-2007Neurologist Doesn't Know Parkinson's 10-10-2007A Broken Hip and Parkinson's Disease 11-28-2007Physical Therapy Can Improve Balance with Parkinson's Disease

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