Relationships between physical activities performed under free-living conditions and non-motor symptoms in people with Parkinson's: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

Background: Physical activities performed under free-living conditions that are unsupervised in the home or community have the potential to modulate non-motor symptoms in people with Parkinson's disease.

Objective: This systematic review investigates the relationships between physical activities performed in free-living conditions and non-motor symptoms in people with Parkinson's disease: cognition, anxiety, apathy, depression, sleep disturbances, fatigue, and pain.

Data Sources: A database search was performed on Scopus, Web of Science, Ovid (PsycINFO), CINAHL, PubMed, and ProQuest (Health and Medicine).

Self-regulation training for people with knee osteoarthritis: a protocol for a feasibility randomised control trial (MiNT trial).

Introduction: Knee osteoarthritis (OA) is a chronic secondary musculoskeletal pain condition resulting in disability, reduced quality of life, and high societal costs. Pain associated with knee OA is linked to increased sensitivity in sensory, cognitive, and emotional areas of the brain. Self-regulation training targeting brain functioning related to pain experience could reduce pain and its associated disability.

A pilot investigation of reliability and validity of balance and gait assessments using telehealth with healthy older adults.

Background: The use of telehealth has increased since the COVID-19 pandemic; however, the lack of reliable and valid tools to measure balance and gait remotely makes assessing these outcomes difficult. Thus, we investigated whether balance and gait measures used in clinical practice are reliable and valid when assessed remotely through telehealth.

Method: In this pilot study, we investigated 15 healthy older adults who performed validated tests: Timed Up and Go simple, dual cognitive and motor tasks; Berg Balance Scale; Functional Gait Assessment and Dynamic Gait Index.