ALESSANDRA FERREIRA BARBOSA LEE

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    The competition with a concurrent cognitive task affects posturographic measures in patients with Parkinson disease
    (2015) BARBOSA, Alessandra Ferreira; SOUZA, Carolina de Oliveira; CHEN, Janini; FRANCATO, Debora Valente; CAROMANO, Fatima Aparecida; CHIEN, Hsin Fen; BARBOSA, Egberto Reis; GREVE, Julia Maria D'Andrea; VOOS, Mariana Callil
    Objectives: To estimate the impact of a sensory-motor-cognitive task on postural balance, in Parkinson disease patients (Hoehn and Yahr 2-3) and to investigate possible relationships between posturography and functional balance clinical scales. Method: Parkinson disease patients (n = 40) and healthy controls (n = 27) were evaluated with fluency tests, Berg Balance scale, Mini Best test and static posturography on the conditions eyes open, eyes closed and dual-task (simultaneous balance and fluency tasks). Results: Posturographic data showed that Parkinson disease patients performed worse than controls in all evaluations. In general, balance on dual-task was significantly poorer than balance with eyes closed. Posturographic data were weakly correlated to clinical balance scales. Conclusion: In clinical practice, Parkinson disease patients are commonly assessed with eyes closed, to sensitize balance. Our study showed that adding a cognitive task is even more effective. Static posturographic data should be carefully overgeneralized to infer functional balance impairments.