Lateral inclination of the trunk and falling frequency in Parkinson's disease patients.

Ryoichi HayashiJunpei AizawaHiroyuki NagaseShinji Ohara

Published in: Electromyography and clinical neurophysiology (2010)

We demonstrated that PD patients who had fallen frequently tended to have a 1) lumbar scoliosis, and 2) large value of lateral COP displacement. These results suggest that the measurement of both lateral COP displacement during sitting and spinal curvature would be useful in predicting the risk of falling in PD patients.

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