29: How Should You Treat Freezing of Gait in Individuals with Parkinson’s When There Are Different Reasons For Freezing?

Anti Racist action: Article from the Journal of Infectious Diseases 2019  Impact of Unconscious Bias in Healthcare How to Recognize and Mitigate It. Has a glossary of terms to help put language around some of the labels.  Talks not only about race but also gender identity bias and disparities.  Includes strategies to mitigate bias as an individual, organization and both. Must make a commitment to a culture of inclusion vs just diversity training or cultural competence.  

https://academic.oup.com/jid/article/220/Supplement_2/S62/5552356

We highly recommend you listen to episode 28 before listening to this one as it is a follow up to what we discussed in episode 28!  Some things will not make sense in this episode if you don’t listen to episode 28 first.

Claire shares an update on how her client with freezing of gait (FOG) has improved already just halfway through her intensive program.  She shares updates in his outcome measures and what she determined were the most important aspects of his treatment that are making the difference.

We also discuss a listener question from S about FOG that she is experiencing herself.  Her situation is very different than the case Claire has been sharing.  She explains the situations in which the freezing occurs.  We talk through the important aspects surrounding the FOG that were pointed out in her email question such as where and when it occurs: in stores, with distractions, later in the day. We identify the main points to pay attention to in her freezing situation and what are the main things to work on first to address it.