Influence of treadmill training in dual-task gait in people with Parkinson's Disease: a case report

• Main Authors: Angélica Vieira Cavalcanti de Sousa (Author), Lorenna Marques de Melo Santiago (Author), Raphaella Elias de Oliveira da Silva (Author), Daniel Antunes de Oliveira (Author), Élida Rayanne Viana Pinheiro Galvão (Author), Ana Raquel Rodrigues Lindquist (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Universidade de São Paulo, 2014-09-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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The loss in the automaticity of gait hinders the performance of concurrent activities - Dual Task (DT) - in individuals with Parkinson's disease (PD). One hypothesis for the negative interference of DT on gait is related to the limitation of attention resources in the brain for different activi...