Parkinson’s Disease Gait Treatment

Authors
Affiliations

Nate Yomogida, B.S., SPT

Doctor of Physical Therapy

B.S. in Kinesiology

Chloë Kerstein, B.S., SPT

Doctor of Physical Therapy

B.A. in Neuroscience

Stride length

Effective Treatments

  • Gait training was found to increase stride length in PD patients1
  • Step length improved with treadmill and RGAT1
  • There is no consensus on which type of gait training is best for stride length1

Ineffective Treatments

  • PNF based (nonambulatory) gait training (rhythmic initiation, slow reversal, and agonistic reversal exercises applied to the pelvic region) did not improve step length1

Gait Speed

1.
Osborne JA, Botkin R, Colon-Semenza C, et al. Physical Therapist Management of Parkinson Disease: A Clinical Practice Guideline From the American Physical Therapy Association. Physical Therapy. 2022;102(4):pzab302. doi:10.1093/ptj/pzab302

Citation

For attribution, please cite this work as:
Yomogida N, Kerstein C. Parkinson’s Disease Gait Treatment. https://yomokerst.com/The Archive/Neuroscience/Neuropathology/Parkinsons Disease/PD_gait.html