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TL;DR: In a 40-person stroke rehab trial, people who did video-game balance training with a tight cuff on the weak thigh improved balance, walking and leg strength more over 4 weeks than people doing the same training without the cuff. The trial was small, sho…
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TL;DR: Across 12 small trials, people with Parkinson’s who trained on walking robots scored a bit better on balance and a timed walking test than people who got other therapy. The evidence is low quality, so the true benefit may be smaller. Key Findings 12 ran…
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TL;DR: Pooling 20 small trials in Parkinson’s disease, structured exercise improved movement-exam scores, freezing while walking and one balance test compared with usual care. The strongest evidence was for the movement exam, and no one type of exercise stood…
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TL;DR: A reviewed preprint in eLife found that adult vestibular hair-cell kinocilia carry both primary-cilia and motile-cilia features, including motile-cilia gene signatures and spontaneous motion in bullfrog and mouse balance organs. Key Findings 1,522 mouse…
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