Acute effects of music therapy session with a different rhythmic structures on gait parameters in patients with MS

Music therapy has been reported to have positive effects on many diseases of nervous origin such as Huntingtons, stroke and Parkinson's disease.The aim of current study was to evaluate the acute effects of music therapy session with a different rhythmic structures on gait parameters in patients with MS.
Material and 15 female patients with diseases MS, the age range of 22-50 years, and EDSS 3 to 6, volunteered to participate in this study. For training session used rhythmic structures 2/4, 4/4 and 6/8 during walking. Walking subjects were recorded by Three-dimensional motion analysis system with 6 cameras and after data processing with cortex software, spatial-temporal gait parameters were extracted. Statistical analysis of data using paired samples T test and repeated measures of variance was performed.
Paired sample t-test results showed that a music therapy session with rhythmic structures 2/4, 4/4 and 6/8 are generally not affected on the gait parameters of patient with MS. Repeated measures of variance also showed that despite the more positive effect of the 2/4 and 4/4 metres on the gait parameters than 6/8 metre, but there were no significantly different between 2/4, 4/4 and 6/8 rhythmic structures.
The results showed a positive effect (though slight) of music therapy session with the different metres on gait parameters of people with MS. Probably in the long term, the effect of this type of training will be more apparent.