A virtual reality hallway is effective for provoking and assessing freezing of gait in patients with Parkinson’s disease.

Parkinson's disease (PD) is a common neurodegenerative disorder, affecting about one percent of the population over the age of 60 years. While the typical age at onset is in the sixth decade of life ...

Gait speed, or walking speed, is a simple measure of how quickly you can walk a short distance (usually 4 meters, or about 13 ...

NICE, France — Both Parkinson's patients who have freezing of gait, known as "freezers," and those who do not, "non-freezers," benefit from multimodal balance training (MBT) with rhythmic cues, a new ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . While associated with fall rates, balance and gait measures do not explain why people with greater visual field ...

You don’t have to lose your balance before you find it again. Health and aging experts want to educate people on proactive ...

People with multiple sclerosis (MS) often have a greatly increased risk of falling and injuring themselves even when they feel they're able to walk normally. Now a team led by scientists from the UNC ...

Could a new device called a portable neuromodulation stimulator (PoNS) help improve your mobility and balance with multiple sclerosis? PoNS is a device that delivers mild electrical pulses to two ...

Even more than strength or mobility, recent research says you need to look to your balance to determine longevity.