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SAGE-Hindawi Access to Research Parkinson’s Disease Volume 2010, Article ID 267640, 5 pages doi:10.4061/2010/267640 Research Article Camptocormia in Parkinson’s Disease Kazuo Abe,1, 2, 3 Yutaka Uchida,2 and Masaru Notani4 1 Department of Nursing and Rehabilitation, Konan Women’s University, Kobe 657-0001, Japan 2 Department of Neurology and Rehabilitation Center, Konan Hospital, Kobe 658-0064, Japan 3 Clinical Research Center, Osaka Health Science University, 1-9-27 Tenma, Kita-Ku, Osaka 530-0043, Japan 4 Garacia Hospital, Rehabilitation Center, Yokosuka 562-8567, Japan Correspondence should be addressed to Kazuo Abe, abe neurology@ Received 13 November 2009; Revised 12 February 2010; Accepted 2 June 2010 Academic Editor: Elan D. Louis Copyright © 2010 Kazuo Abe et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Objectives. Abnormalities of posture represent one of the main features of Parkinson’s disease (PD). Among them, camptocormia has been considered as rare in PD. We investigated frequency and clinical features of camptocormia in PD patients. Methods. 153 PD patients (mean 68.5 ± 10.7 years old, duration 5.9 ± 2.4 years) outpatiently recruited. After neurologic examination, patients were rated on the Unified PD Rating Scale motor scale (UPDRS Part III), minimental state examination (MMSE). Also we evaluated patients with camptocormia by MRI. Of the 153 PD patients, 27 had camptocormia (mean age, 67.9 ± 7.9 years old; disease duration, 6.1±3.9 years). For further evaluation, we recruited age- and sex-matched 27 PD patients without camptocormia (11 men and 16 women; mean age ± SD, 69.2 ±