Talk:Parkinsonian gait

Research for the article

• Research for this Wikipedia entry was initially conducted as a part of a Locomotion Neuromechanics course (APPH 6232) offered in the School of Applied Physiology at Georgia Tech

• Website of the student responsible for this article in the Georgia project: Dr. Kathleen Norman

Educational assignment

After accessing the link above I have noticed that this page is actually an educational project. I have added the appropiate template here, but since I have noticed that each student would have to create an article as final project maybe the coordinator of the course might be interested in adding the project to Wikipedia:School and university projects, creating a page with the aims of the course, and adding similar templates to all the created articles.

Since wikipedia style guidelines and policies are sometimes quite hard to understand I want to encourage the creator of this article and any other of her class companions to ask any questions they need and cooperate with other editors. Bests.--Garrondo (talk) 10:16, 9 May 2010 (UTC)

Festination

We also have an article on Festination. Should that be merged here? Why doesn't this article mention festination at all? Ocaasi ^c 08:31, 11 April 2011 (UTC)

Image of Parkinson’s gate

The image of the Parkinson’s gate has become a symbol of an outdated understanding of Parkinson’s, which affects not only old people but many more men and women younger than 50. A current image from 21 century will be more inclusive and better inform the reader. MixieDixie (talk) 13:57, 21 February 2022 (UTC)

@MixieDixie: I couldn't agree more. The problem is getting one that is copyright free or has a licence that let's us use it. I guess we could remove it and add this as an external link. Doug Weller talk 14:07, 21 February 2022 (UTC)

I've got Parkinson's and am fairly intelligent, but what does this mean?

@‎Pandapanda123456 "It is possible to demonstrate poor and paradoxical dopaminergic medication response through a challenge paradigm in which gait is assessed after withdrawal from medication and in the full ON medication state." "ON" is obvious, paradoxical and challenge paradigm not. If the latter means "challenged by walking on a variety of surfaces" why use the word paradigm? I see paradoxically is used earlier, but not explained. Doug Weller talk 15:32, 18 October 2023 (UTC)

Good point. The "challenge" is to compare ON vs OFF meds. They use this because typically the ON is more than the usual morning dose, and the idea is to get as much medication in the bloodstream as possible to see if symptoms respond. "Paradoxically" has a link earlier. In this case it means that FOG can either disappear or appear with meds, depending on the patient, and even show up between OFF and ON. Pandapanda123456 (talk) 15:41, 18 October 2023 (UTC)

@Pandapanda123456 Thanks. I thought that might be the case. Maybe tweak the wording? I must do something about that horrible old image which just might be ok here but not in the main article. See Talk:Parkinson's disease/Archive 7#Old Shaky Dude Picture. Doug Weller talk 19:23, 18 October 2023 (UTC)

Image redux

See Talk:Parkinson's disease/Archive 7#Old Shaky Dude Picture. Doug Weller talk 14:11, 20 October 2023 (UTC)