Handwriting training in Parkinson's disease: A trade-off between size, speed and fluency.
Evelien NackaertsSanne BroederMarcelo P PereiraStephan P SwinnenWim VandenbergheAlice NieuwboerElke HeremansPublished in: PloS one (2017)
While intensive amplitude training is beneficial to improve writing size in PD, it comes at a cost as fluency and stroke duration deteriorated after training. The findings imply that PD patients can redistribute movement priorities after training within a compromised motor system.