Assessment of Motor Impairments in Early Untreated Parkinson's Disease Patients: The Wearable Electronics Impact.
Journal:
IEEE journal of biomedical and health informatics
Published Date:
Mar 7, 2019
Abstract
OBJECTIVE: The complex nature of Parkinson's disease (PD) makes difficult to rate its severity, mainly based on the visual inspection of motor impairments. Wearable sensors have been demonstrated to help overcoming such a difficulty, by providing objective measures of motor abnormalities. However, up to now, those sensors have been used on advanced PD patients with evident motor impairment. As a novelty, here we report the impact of wearable sensors in the evaluation of motor abnormalities in newly diagnosed, untreated, namely de novo, patients.