Freezing

Learn how to recognize when freezing may happen and what you can do to minimize injury.

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Freezing and PD

Freezing is the temporary, involuntary inability to move.

Man using cane standing still in dinning room

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Freezing of Gait: Comparing Treatments Options

The sudden, involuntary inability to move — that feeling of your feet being glued to the floor when trying to take a step — is called freezing of gait.

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Walking with Parkinson’s: Freezing, Balance and Falls

Parkinson’s disease can change the way a person walks. Movement symptoms can make it harder to take normal steps. In fact, short, shuffling steps are a common sign of PD, as is freezing, the feeling that your feet are stuck to the floor, for people with mid-stage to advanced PD.

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Episode 66: Freezing of Gait

Problems with gait, or how you walk, are common in Parkinson’s disease.

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A Possible New Gait Way: Spinal Cord Stimulation

Many people with advanced Parkinson’s experience issues with gait (walking), freezing of gait and postural instability. Current PD therapies do not effectively address this debilitating unmet need. This lack of options might be changing, due to an intervention called spinal cord stimulation (SCS).