akinesia becoming dyskinesia after exercise testing: prevalence and relationship to clinical outcome

Zolpidem improves akinesia, dystonia and dyskinesia in advanced Parkinson's disease.

Zolpidem, an imidazopyridine hypnotic drug acting as a selective gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) type A agonist, has been reported to produce significant motor improvement in patients with Parkinson’s disease (PD). However, relevant reports are scarce. We report a patient with advanced PD who had had a unilateral pallidotomy, unilateral thalamotomy and bilateral deep brain stimulation (DBS) of t...

Clinical exercise stress testing.

Exercise testing in clinical medicine.

Exercise-induced changes in the electrocardiogram have been used to identify coronary artery disease for almost a century. Over the past decade, however, clinicians have increasingly focused on more expensive diagnostic tools believing them to offer improved diagnostic accuracy. In fact, by incorporating historical data, the simple exercise test can in most cases outperform the newer tests. The...

Submaximal exercise testing: clinical application and interpretation.

Compared with maximal exercise testing, submaximal exercise testing appears to have greater applicability to physical therapists in their role as clinical exercise specialists. This review contrasts maximal and submaximal exercise testing. Two major categories of submaximal tests (ie, predictive and performance tests) and their relative merits are described. Predictive tests are submaximal test...

Clinical exercise testing: basic principles and practice

Faculty and delegates of an @ERStalk course on clinical exercise testing describe their experiences http://ow.ly/dPwB30dxr8v.