Treadmill training in Parkinson’s disease is underpinned by the interregional connectivity in cortical-subcortical network

New clinical study with brain imaging suggests that treadmill training "may lead to recruitment of compensatory effects recruited from other brain regions to the motor cortex" in individuals with #Parkinsons

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* All participants were trained 3 times a week.

* Each training session lasted about 45 minutes, and started with 5 minutes of “warm up” (only walking on the treadmill).

Training protocol

All the PD patients in the current study underwent a 6-week treadmill training program, as part of the active control group in the V-TIME project33. The training protocol is consistent with the previous literature and pilot studies13,33. All participants were trained 3 times a week. Each training session lasted about 45 minutes, and started with 5 minutes of “warm up” (only walking on the treadmill). The participants walked on the treadmill with a safety harness that prevented falls but did not provide body weight support. The healthy control group underwent the same assessment protocol but did not receive any training.

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Interesting parallels (times and frequency) with John Pepper's walking regimen.