Associations between kinesiophobia, performance and functionality in patients with freezing of gait and Parkinson

Abstract

Parkinson´s Disease is the second most common neurodegenerative movement disorder worldwide and the first one in Europe, with a prevalence increasing with age. Freezing of gait is a motor disorder which fundamentally causes a block of lower limb, during this espisode patients can not generate a step. Furthermore, freezing of gait is one of the most motor disabling motor disorder in Parkinson´s Disease, being related to the progression of the disease and sometimes with the appearance of complications. Those complications can include increase fall risk, impairment of activities of daily life and reduction of quality of life; due to the related decrease in movement and physical activity in patients with Parkinson´s Disease and freezing of gait. Despite others studies have shown a relationship between kinesiophobia, physical activity and functionality in patients with Parkinson´s Disease, there are no evidences of this link in patients with Parkinson´s Disease and freezing of gait in ``On´´ state.