{"id":296,"date":"2016-07-08T14:20:14","date_gmt":"2016-07-08T14:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/hhs\/hk\/Biomechanics-MotorBehavior\/?p=296"},"modified":"2016-08-02T16:00:28","modified_gmt":"2016-08-02T16:00:28","slug":"cognitive-balance-training-cobalt-in-people-with-parkinsons-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/hhs\/hk\/Biomechanics-MotorBehavior\/cognitive-balance-training-cobalt-in-people-with-parkinsons-disease\/","title":{"rendered":"COgnitive BALance Training (COBALT) in people with Parkinson\u2019s disease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Individuals with Parkinson\u2019s disease often fall while performing activities requiring simultaneous cognitively-demanding tasks (e.g. walking while talking). Falling reduces independence, mobility, and quality of life.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Current behavioral interventions do not improve balance while performing cognitively-demanding tasks.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>We developed a new intervention, <b>COgnitive-based BALance Training (COBALT)<\/b> to simultaneously train balance and cognition, simulating the demands inherent in common tasks.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>We are currently examining the effectiveness of COBALT to improve motor and non-motor symptoms associated with Parkinson\u2019s disease relative to standard therapeutic interventions.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>Collaborators<\/strong>: Shirley Rietdyk (HK), Jessica Huber (SLHS), Meghan McDonough (HK), Peter Altenburger (IUPUI), and Liz Zauber (IU school of medicine)<br \/>\n<\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Students: <\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Individuals with Parkinson\u2019s disease often fall while performing activities requiring simultaneous cognitively-demanding tasks (e.g. walking while talking). Falling reduces independence, mobility, and quality of life.\u00a0 Current behavioral interventions do not improve balance while performing cognitively-demanding tasks.\u00a0 We developed a new intervention, COgnitive-based BALance Training (COBALT) to simultaneously train balance and cognition, simulating the demands inherent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-296","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-motor-control","7":"entry","8":"override"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/hhs\/hk\/Biomechanics-MotorBehavior\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/hhs\/hk\/Biomechanics-MotorBehavior\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/hhs\/hk\/Biomechanics-MotorBehavior\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/hhs\/hk\/Biomechanics-MotorBehavior\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/hhs\/hk\/Biomechanics-MotorBehavior\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/hhs\/hk\/Biomechanics-MotorBehavior\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":409,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/hhs\/hk\/Biomechanics-MotorBehavior\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296\/revisions\/409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/hhs\/hk\/Biomechanics-MotorBehavior\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/hhs\/hk\/Biomechanics-MotorBehavior\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/hhs\/hk\/Biomechanics-MotorBehavior\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}