Sensitivity to gait improvement after levodopa intake in Parkinson’s disease: A comparison study among synthetic kinematic indices

Emahnuel Troisi Lopez, Roberta Minino, Pierpaolo Sorrentino, Valentino Manzo, Domenico Tafuri, Giuseppe Sorrentino and Marianna Liparoti

PLOS ONE, 2022, vol. 17, issue 5, 1-17

Abstract: The synthetic indices are widely used to describe balance and stability during gait. Some of these are employed to describe the gait features in Parkinson’s disease (PD). However, the results are sometimes inconsistent, and the same indices are rarely used to compare the individuals affected by PD before and after levodopa intake (OFF and ON condition, respectively). Our aim was to investigate which synthetic measure among Harmonic Ratio, Jerk Ratio, Golden Ratio and Trunk Displacement Index is representative of gait stability and harmony, and which of these are more sensitive to the variations between OFF and ON condition. We found that all indices, except the Jerk Ratio, significantly improve after levodopa. Only the improvement of the Trunk Displacement Index showed a direct correlation with the motor improvement measured through the clinical scale UPDRS-III (Unified Parkinson’s Disease Rating Scale–part III). In conclusion, we suggest that the synthetic indices can be useful to detect motor changes induced by, but not all of them clearly correlate with the clinical changes achieved with the levodopa administration. In our analysis, only the Trunk Displacement Index was able to show a clear relationship with the PD clinical motor improvement.

Date: 2022
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