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Yoon, Park, Park, Ha, Kim, Shin, Kim, and Jo: The effect of lateral wedge on postural sway in Parkinson's disease

초록

Background

Although postural instability is one of the major symptoms of Parkinson's disease (PD), dopaminergic treatment is ineffective for treating postural instability. Recent reports have shown that somatosensory deficit is associated with postural instability, and that somatosensory input improved postural instability. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effects of lateral wedges for quiet standing postural control in people with PD.

Methods

Twenty-two patients who were diagnosed with PD were enrolled in this study. The participants stood on a force plate under two conditions (wedge and no wedge) with or without having their eyes open or closed. The center of pressure (COP) range and velocity were analyzed using a two-way repeated-measures analysis of variance.

Results

The range and velocity of COP in the anterioposterior and mediolateral (ML) directions were significantly improved after the patients stood on the lateral wedge with their eyes closed (p < 0.05). The range in ML direction and velocity in both directions of COP were significantly decreased when their eyes were open (p < 0.05).

Conclusions

Regardless of vision, standing on lateral wedges improved postural sway in people with PD.

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Fig. 1.
Lateral wedges. Participants stood on flat surface and with lateral wedges at 10 degrees in forced platform, which can measure the center of pressure.
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Table 1.
Participant's demographic data
PD (n = 22)
Age (years) 70.1 (10.4)
Gender 12 males/10 females
Height (cm) 160.4 (11.8)
Mass (kg) 64.0 (12.1)
BMI (kg/m2) 24.7 (2.4)
Modified H&Y scale 1.8 (0.8)
UPDRS III 17.3 (6.4)

Values are presented as mean (SD) unless otherwise indicated.

PD, Parkinson's disease; BMI, body mass index; H&Y, Hoehn and Yahr; UPDRS, Unified Parkinson's Disease Rating Scale.

Table 2.
Comparison of the center of pressure based on variables in the experimental conditions
Direction Parameters No wedge Wedge p-value
Eyes open Eyes closed Eyes open Eyes closed Wedge Vision Interaction
AP direction Range (cm) 3.17 (1.46) 3.51 (1.66) 3.32 (1.91) 3.27 (1.67) 0.805 0.627 0.264
  Velocity (cm/s) 37.07 (9.73) 36.52 (9.46) 34.52 (8.35) 33.92 (7.89) 0.002 a 0.059 0.925
ML direction Range (cm) 2.47 (1.56) 2.68 (1.78) 2.05 (1.26) 2.10 (1.89) 0.002 a 0.529 0.559
  Velocity (cm/s) 42.71 (9.03) 43.53 (10.11) 41.67 (8.47) 41.89 (8.13) 0.008 a 0.026 a 0.232

Values are presented as mean (SD). Wedge-p-value < 0.05 means that there is a statistically significant difference between with and without wedge re-gardless of the vision. Vision-p-value < 0.05 means that there is a statistically significant difference between eye open and closed. Interaction-p-value < 0.05 means that there is a statistically significant difference between with and without wedge, eye open and closed. AP, anterio-posterior; ML, mediolateral.

a p < 0.05.

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