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Functional training | Rolling from supine position to sitting position and from sitting position to supine position. |
Transferring from sitting position to standing position, from chair to bed, and from chair to toilet. |
Dressing and grooming. |
Balance: reactive and anticipatory within functional contexts. |
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Gait training | Walking with external auditory cues from a metronome to optimize gait speed and cadence; increasing cadence by 10% over baseline and progressing until cadence approaches normal or until subject reaches maximum capacity. |
Reducing freezing (context specific: doorways, thresholds, and narrow spaces) with visual cues in the form of lines on the floor from tape or laser beams. |
Reducing freezing (context specific: doorways, thresholds, and narrow spaces) with visual cues in the form of lines on the floor from tape or laser beams. |
Improving adaptation (various walking surfaces, obstacles in the environment, starting and stopping, and turning head while walking). |
Curb negotiation and stair climbing. |
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Range of motion, flexibility, strengthening exercises | Range of motion (increase trunk extension and rotation). |
Stretching (hip flexor, hamstring, and gastrocnemius muscles). |
Strengthening (trunk and hip postural muscles and knee and ankle extensor muscles). |
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Speech exercises | Exercises to improve vocal rate control. |
Exercises to improve phonation. |
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