Motor Skills

A recent study showed that changing up therapies in the later stages of Parkinson’s disease improved motor symptoms and other subjective symptoms. As a result, doctors should consider advanced therapy...

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Participation in physical exercise may be more important than any particular type of activity prescribed, investigators say.

Risk up for poorer motor function measured by walking speed, grip strength, timed chair rises, physical component summary scores

Low expectations can have a powerful effect on how well older adults perform on cognitive and motor skills tests, according to a Georgia State University gerontologist.

Older adults who experience both slower gait and psychomotor speed are twice as likely to experience new onset depression and anxiety, investigators say.

Participants who started dopamine replacement therapy earlier had no difference in motor scores after two years when compared with those who started treatment later.

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Motor symptoms and functional abilities improved when seniors engaged in weekly ping pong sessions designed by experienced players.

A study of long-distance skiers showed that physical fitness may delay clinical symptoms for years.