People with Parkinson's disease frequently develop a problem known as "gait freeze," in which their legs simply stop stepping forward as they're walking. A new powered exoskeleton, however ...

The team also could identify freezing episodes in patients as they performed short walking tests. "The authors demonstrated that periods of gait freezing can be predicted from recorded neural ...

Beyond causing tremors and other unintended movements, Parkinson’s often triggers a symptom called “gait freezing,” in which mobile individuals suddenly find themselves unable to move their ...

"But this work suggests the potential benefits of a 'bottom-up' rather than 'top-down' solution to treating gait freezing," Ellis continued. "We see that restoring almost-normal biomechanics ...

No specific treatment for freezing of gait is available, although it is one of the main reasons for falls among Parkinson's patients. Alongside tremor and cognitive impairment, freezing is one of ...

An article on the study is published in the journal Sleep Medicine. ‘In Parkinson's disease, freezing of gait doesn't necessarily indicate an advanced stage, and while not universal among ...

No specific treatment yet available Parkinson's disease affects sleep generally, regardless of whether the patient has freezing of gait. In an unpublished study, Barbieri's group and collaborators ...