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Science & Technology, Life Sciences & Biomedicine, Orthopedics, Rehabilitation, FRONTAL ASSESSMENT BATTERY, COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT, OLDER-ADULTS, COMPLEX WALKING, GAIT PARAMETERS, WALKWAY SYSTEM, RATING-SCALE, PERFORMANCE, MOTOR, INTERFERENCE, Adult, Aged, Aged, 80 and over, Cell Phone, Female, Gait, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Outcome Assessment, Health Care, Parkinson Disease, Physical Therapy Modalities, Reaction Time, Reproducibility of Results, Stroop Test, Task Performance and Analysis, Walking, 1103 Clinical Sciences, 1106 Human Movement and Sports Sciences, 4201 Allied health and rehabilitation science

Abstract:

Dual-task training is gaining ground as a physical therapy intervention in people with Parkinson's disease (PD). Future studies evaluating the effect of such interventions need reliable outcome measures. To date, the test-retest reliability of dual-task measures in patients with PD remains largely unknown.