Falls When Standing, Falls When Walking: Different Mechanisms, Different Outcomes in Parkinson Disease
Falls When Standing, Falls When Walking: Different Mechanisms, Different Outcomes in Parkinson Disease
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DOI:
10.7759/cureus.5329
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发表时间:
2019-08-06
影响因子:
1.2
通讯作者:
Lockhart, Thurmon E.
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作者:
Lieberman, Abraham;Deep, Aman;Lockhart, Thurmon E.
Our retrospective study of falls and resultant trauma in consecutive Parkinson disease (PD) patients seen in one year at the Muhammad Ali Parkinson Clinic found that multiple-fallers could be divided into patients who fell mainly when walking or those who fell mainly when standing. Patients who fell when walking were more likely to visit an emergency room or be admitted to a hospital.Of 455 consecutive patients who were evaluated over a one-year period, 51 were excluded because they had atypical Parkinson disorders, had multiple risk factors for falling, or were demented. Unified Parkinson Disease Rating Scales and Zeno Walkway results were compared among non-fallers, single-fallers, and multiple-fallers. Among multiple-fallers, comparisons were made between patients who fell mainly when standing and those who fell mainly when walking.Most patients (197, 49%) did not fall, 142 (35%) fell once, and 65 (16%) fell more than once. Multiple-fallers differed significantly from single-fallers and non-fallers: they had PD significantly longer (p