Feasibility and safety of the Mobility Rehab Auditory Feedback system for gait in people with Parkinson's disease: A pilot study.

Carla Silva-Batista¹, Graham Harker¹, Patricia Carlson-Kuhta¹, Sean Pearson², Jess VanDerwalker², Fay B Horak³, Mahmoud El-Gohary², Martina Mancini⁴

¹Department of Neurology, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR, United States.

²APDM Wearable Technologies - a Clario Company, Portland, OR, United States.

³Department of Neurology, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR, United States; APDM Wearable Technologies - a Clario Company, Portland, OR, United States.

⁴Department of Neurology, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR, United States. Electronic address: mancinim@ohsu.edu.

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Abstract

BACKGROUND: The Mobility Rehab Auditory Feedback, a novel physical therapist-assisted system, uses verbal cues and a metronome as feedback during a single treadmill session, which may improve overground walking with and without a cognitive task in people with Parkinson's disease (PD). RESEARCH QUESTION: Is the Mobility Rehab Auditory Feedback system a safe and feasible intervention to improve gai…

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