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Acknowledgement

Our thanks to Dr W Farid Abdo¹for his help in reviewing this article.

Parkinson Centre, Institute of Neurology. Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, Netherlands

Where can I find more information?

Rescue Project

Funded by the EC Fifth Framework Programme

The 3 year Rescue project, funded by the European Commission (2002-2005), investigated cueing as a rehabilitation strategy in Parkinson's disease. Details about the researchers and the published outputs of the team are available on the project's website. The website also provides background on the principles of cueing and information on cueing for people with Parkinson's disease and their carers: www.rescueproject.org/pubs/info_sheets.htm

A CD-Rom for therapists, outlining the cueing therapy programme used in the successful Rescue randomised clinical trial, is also available from the site.

Email: hs.rescue@northumbria.ac.uk

The Parkinson’s association in your country may also be able to provide information based on members’ experiences. The EPDA website [www.epda.eu.com] contains the contact details for European Parkinson's disease organisations and international Parkinson’s organisations.

Your Parkinson’s association may also advise and provide information and educational opportunities for health professionals.

Publications

Physiotherapy and Parkinson's

Download

Publisher: Parkinson's Disease Society (UK) (April 2006)
Language: English

Information Sheets on Cueing for People with Parkinson's Disease

Publisher: The RESCUE consortium (March - August 2007)
Language: English

No. 1 - Why walking becomes difficult in Parkinson's Disease (August 2005)
No. 2 - What are cues and why can cues help? (March 2005)
No. 3 - I walk more slowly now (March 2005)
No. 4 - I tend to shuffle (March 2005)
No. 5 - My feet stick to the ground (I freeze) (March 2005)
No. 6 - The first step is the most difficult (March 2005)
No. 7 - I'm alright in a straight line but changing direction is difficult (March 2005)
No. 8 - I get stuck in the chair (March 2005)
No. 9 - I can feel myself stooping (March 2005)
No. 10 - I feel as if I am going to fall (March 2005)
No. 11 - My walking is fine as long as no one talks to me (March 2005)
No. 12 - I can't walk as far or as fast as I did (March 2005)
No. 13 - I feel stiff generally (March 2005)
No. 14 - Carers can cue too (March 2005)
No. 15 - Involuntary movements (dyskinesia) affect my walking (August 2005)

Improvement of gait by chronic, high doses of methylphenidate in patients with advanced Parkinson’s disease

Authors: D Devos, P Krystkowiak, F Clement, K Dujardin, O Cottencin, N Waucquier, K Ajebbar, B Thielemans, M Kroumova, A Duhamel, A Destée, R Bordet, and L Defebvre
Source: J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2007; 78: 470-475 (May 2007)
doi: 1136/jnnp.2006.100016
Language: English

Using cueing to improve mobility in Parkinson's Disease: A CD-Rom for therapists

Author: Alice Nieuwboer
Publisher: The RESCUE consortium (March 2007)
Language: English

The Rescue consortium, a research collaboration between Northumbria University (United Kingdom), Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (The Netherlands) and the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium) have developed a CD-Rom as a guide for therapists who want to use cueing to treat gait and gait-related activities in patients with Parkinson's disease. The RESCUE collaboration conducted a clinical trial that has confirmed the use of cueing as an effective treatment in the home situation. In preparation for this trial, an actual cueing treatment method was developed, which is presented on this CD-Rom. As well as evidence-based cueing guidelines, therapists will find cueing instructions and specific exercises, richly linked to illustrative video clips, centred around 12 therapy aims related to improving gait and gait-related activities. The CD-Rom also contains information on disease background and clinical evaluation tools.

You can read about and order the CD from the catalogue of the audiovisual service of the KULeuven:
www.avnet.kuleuven.be/en/catalogus/showArticle.php?id=122 (for English speakers)

www.avnet.kuleuven.be/catalogus/showArticle.php?id=122 (for Dutch speakers)

Maximising mobility