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.