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Esther Bekkers

KU Leuven · BE
Area of research
Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation · Psychiatry and Mental health
Research interest
Research interests include Physical medicine and rehabilitation, Gait, Medicine, Parkinson's disease, Physical therapy, and Postural instability.
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citations
1,902
works
16
NIH funding
primary concept
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Recent publications

Functional neuroimaging of human postural control: A systematic review with meta-analysis
Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews 2020cited by 99position: middledoi
Falls Risk in Relation to Activity Exposure in High-Risk Older Adults
The Journals of Gerontology Series A 2020cited by 84position: middledoi
Do Patients With Parkinson’s Disease With Freezing of Gait Respond Differently Than Those Without to Treadmill Training Augmented by Virtual Reality?
Neurorehabilitation and neural repair 2020cited by 55position: firstdoi
Associations between daily-living physical activity and laboratory-based assessments of motor severity in patients with falls and Parkinson's disease
Parkinsonism & Related Disorders 2019cited by 99position: middledoi
Estimation of spatio-temporal parameters of gait from magneto-inertial measurement units: multicenter validation among Parkinson, mildly cognitively impaired and healthy older adults
BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2018cited by 85position: middledoi
Balancing between the two: Are freezing of gait and postural instability in Parkinson’s disease connected?
Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews 2018cited by 68position: firstdoi
The Impact of Dual-Tasking on Postural Stability in People With Parkinson’s Disease With and Without Freezing of Gait
Neurorehabilitation and neural repair 2018cited by 48position: firstdoi
Analysis of Free-Living Gait in Older Adults With and Without Parkinson’s Disease and With and Without a History of Falls: Identifying Generic and Disease-Specific Characteristics
The Journals of Gerontology Series A 2017cited by 195position: middledoi
External input for gait in people with Parkinson’s disease with and without freezing of gait: One size does not fit all
Journal of Neurology 2017cited by 63position: middledoi
Everyday Stepping Quantity and Quality Among Older Adult Fallers With and Without Mild Cognitive Impairment: Initial Evidence for New Motor Markers of Cognitive Deficits?
The Journals of Gerontology Series A 2017cited by 60position: middledoi
Clinical balance scales indicate worse postural control in people with Parkinson’s disease who exhibit freezing of gait compared to those who do not: A meta-analysis
Gait & Posture 2017cited by 50position: firstdoi
Fall-Prone Older People's Attitudes towards the Use of Virtual Reality Technology for Fall Prevention
Gerontology 2017cited by 41position: middledoi
Addition of a non-immersive virtual reality component to treadmill training to reduce fall risk in older adults (V-TIME): a randomised controlled trial
The Lancet 2016cited by 481position: middledoi
Virtual reality for rehabilitation in Parkinson's disease
Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2016cited by 370position: middledoi
Progression of postural control and gait deficits in Parkinson's disease and freezing of gait: A longitudinal study
Parkinsonism & Related Disorders 2016cited by 63position: middledoi
The Contribution of Proprioceptive Information to Postural Control in Elderly and Patients with Parkinson’s Disease with a History of Falls
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 2014cited by 41position: firstdoi

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Frequent collaborators

Alice Nieuwboer · Neuroelectronics Research Flanders13 papers (2014–2020)Anat Mirelman · Columbia University10 papers (2014–2020)Jeffrey M. Hausdorff · Rush University Medical Center9 papers (2016–2020)Lynn Rochester · Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust9 papers (2016–2020)Elisa Pelosin · University of Minnesota, Twin Cities7 papers (2016–2020) · 6 papers (2016–2020)Bastiaan R. Bloem · University of Lausanne6 papers (2016–2020)Kim Dockx · KU Leuven6 papers (2014–2018)Silvia Del Din · University of Padua6 papers (2016–2020)Elke Heremans · KU Leuven5 papers (2014–2018)Pieter Ginis · KU Leuven4 papers (2016–2018) · 4 papers (2018–2020) · 4 papers (2018–2020)Sabine Verschueren · KU Leuven4 papers (2014–2018)Lisa Alcock · Flinders University3 papers (2016–2020)Bauke W. Dijkstra · KU Leuven3 papers (2017–2020)Laura Avanzino · University of Minnesota, Twin Cities3 papers (2016–2019)Brook Galna · University of Edinburgh2 papers (2017–2020) · 2 papers (2020–2020)Marcel G. M. Olde Rikkert · Phoenix Contact (United States)2 papers (2016–2020)