Festination-like steps during forward and backward gait while playing tennis
Festination is an episodic gait disorder which is often a precursor of freezing of gait episodes in Parkinson's disease patients. We discuss what lessons can be learned from a patient who had to quit playing tennis as he repeatedly fell due to backward festination-like steps.
Authors
- Alice Nieuwboer (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1193-6229)
- Bastiaan R. Bloem (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6371-3337)
- Bruno Bergmans (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1463-8262)
- Pieter Ginis (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6762-3347)
Institutions
- Radboud University Nijmegen (NL)
- Ghent University Hospital (BE)
- Radboud University Medical Center (NL)
- AZ Sint-Jan (BE)
- KU Leuven (BE)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Journal of Parkinson s Disease
- Published
- 2024-11-01
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1177/1877718x241291983
- Primary Topic
- Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00