| Literature DB >> 24872078 |
Georg Ebersbach1, Ute Grust, Almut Ebersbach, Brigitte Wegner, Florin Gandor, Andrea A Kühn.
Abstract
LSVT-BIG is an exercise for patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) comprising of 16 1-h sessions within 4 weeks. LSVT-BIG was compared with a 2-week short protocol (AOT-SP) consisting of 10 sessions with identical exercises in 42 patients with PD. UPDRS-III-score was reduced by -6.6 in LSVT-BIG and -5.7 in AOT-SP at follow-up after 16 weeks (p < 0.001). Measures of motor performance were equally improved by LSVT-BIG and AOT-SP but high-intensity LSVT-BIG was more effective to obtain patient-perceived benefit.Entities:
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Year: 2014 PMID: 24872078 DOI: 10.1007/s00702-014-1245-8
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Neural Transm (Vienna) ISSN: 0300-9564 Impact factor: 3.575