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Comparison of Kinetic Characteristics of Footwork during Stroke in Table Tennis: Cross-Step and Chasse Step
Published on: June 16, 2021
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Festination-like steps during forward and backward gait while playing tennis
Bruno Bergmans1,2, Pieter Ginis3, Bastiaan R Bloem4
1Department of Neurology, AZ St-Jan Brugge, Brugge, Belgium.
Journal of Parkinson'S Disease
|February 17, 2025
Abstract:
Festination is an episodic gait disorder which is often a precursor of freezing of gait episodes in Parkinson's disease patients. We discuss what lessons can be learned from a patient who had to quit playing tennis as he repeatedly fell due to backward festination-like steps.
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