NexStride Resource Center
From downloadable ebooks, instructional videos and webinars to case studies conducted in physical therapy clinics, our resource center puts the information you’re looking for, at your fingertips.
Featured eBook
Understanding Parkinson’s Disease and Overcoming Movement Challenges
With this plain English guide, we help you understand the challenges that Parkinson’s often presents.
We explain why coordination and movement become so difficult, and how you can safely stay as active as possible, overcoming movement challenges, keeping your independence and enjoying your life.
User Guides
Our video guides provide step-by-step instructions for attaching NexStride to your preferred walker, cane or walking poles, and how to get started with the metronome (auditory cue) and laser light (visual cue).
How to Attach NexStride to a Cane
Follow this video user guide's instructions to attach NexStride to any cane, presented by...
How to Attach NexStride to a Standard Rollator Walker
Refer to this video guide for step-by-step instructions on fitting a NexStride to a standard...
How to Fit NexStride to a Nitro Euro-style Rollator Walker
In this guide, NexStride's cofounder William Thompson demonstrates how to fit your NexStride...
Customer Stories
NexStride users have some wonderful stories to tell. Here, they share details from their lives before a life-changing event, and then talk about the difference that NexStride has made for them.
NexStride Helps Stroke Recovery — PIX 11, New York
NexStride's role in the recovery from a serious stroke was first published on PIX 11 as Brooklyn...
Clovis Veteran Able to Walk Thanks to NexStride — ABC 30
ABC 30 Action News carried this heart-warming story of Patrick Hallmark, published as New device...
NexStride User Stories: John “Fast Johnny” Pistacchi
The Renaissance Man Who Keeps on Moving John Pistacchi is what many would call a renaissance man....
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Research Papers and Whitepapers
Numerous studies have shown that external cueing can improve movement by increasing body position / movement awareness, making it suitable for gait and posture rehabilitation. Additionally, cueing has also been increasingly used in helping with the initiation of a movement. Here, we’ve curated a selection of relevant research.
Cueing Paradigms to Improve Gait and Posture in Parkinson’s Disease: A Narrative Review
Published: December 11, 2019 – Sensors by MDPI, the leading international peer-reviewed open...
Effect of rhythmic auditory cueing on parkinsonian gait: A systematic review and meta-analysis
Published in Scientific Reports, a mega journal emphasizing scientific quality, rather than...
Freezing of gait: Promising avenues for future treatment
Published in Parkinsonism & Related Disorders, official journal of the International...
Educational Webinars
We frequently host educational webinars for those experiencing walking challenges, and their caregivers, as well as physio therapists. We also take part in webinars hosted by foundations and clinics.
FOG And Falls: Improving Independence And Mobility Safely
Physical therapist Maria Allen, of Central Coast Home Health, and Coordinator of the Parkinson's...
Using Cueing to Overcome Freezing of Gait
In this webinar with the Parkinson's Foundation of Western Pennsylvania, Scott Bleakley — Director...
Twitchy Woman — Balance and PD
Twitchy Woman began as a way to exchange ideas and solutions with other whose lives have been...
