Music Therapy for Gait and Speech Deficits in Parkinson's Disease: A Mini-Review

Parkinson's disease (PD) is a progressive central nervous system disease with a common motor symptom of gait disturbance in PD, which is more pronounced in the later stages. Although FDA-approved treatments, including dopaminergic pharmacotherapy, deep brain stimulation, and rehabilitation, hav...

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Published in:Brain sciences 2023-06, Vol.13 (7), p.993
Main Authors: Fan, Leon, Hu, Ellen Y, Hey, Grace E, Hu, Wei
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Central nervous system
Central nervous system diseases
Deep brain stimulation
Dopamine receptors
Drug approval
Drug therapy
Gait
gait disorder
Health aspects
Medical research
Medicine, Experimental
Morbidity
Mortality
Movement disorders
Music therapy
Neurodegenerative diseases
Parkinson's disease
Patients
Physical therapy
Pilot projects
Quality of life
Questionnaires
Rehabilitation
Review
Social interactions
Speech
speech disorder
Speech disorders
Speech therapists
Speech therapy
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Summary:Parkinson's disease (PD) is a progressive central nervous system disease with a common motor symptom of gait disturbance in PD, which is more pronounced in the later stages. Although FDA-approved treatments, including dopaminergic pharmacotherapy, deep brain stimulation, and rehabilitation, have some benefits in improving gait dysfunction, a fair amount of advanced PD patients can develop a disability, social isolation, and high mortality and morbidity. Recently, clinicians and scientists have applied music to clinical therapy, namely music therapy. It has been used as a unique rehabilitation tool to improve PD-induced gait and speech disorders. Based on relevant studies in recent years, this paper reviews the published literature about music in treating gait disorders and speech problems in PD patients. Additionally, we discuss current studies' limitations and emphasize the future potential research fields.
ISSN:2076-3425
2076-3425
DOI:10.3390/brainsci13070993