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Wearable Electronics Assess the Effectiveness of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation on Balance and Gait in Parkinson’s Disease Patients
Currently, clinical evaluation represents the primary outcome measure in Parkinson’s disease (PD). However, clinical evaluation may underscore some subtle motor impairments, hidden from the visual inspection of examiners. Technology-based objective measures are more frequently utilized to assess mot...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6960759/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31835822 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s19245465 |
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author | Ricci, Mariachiara Di Lazzaro, Giulia Pisani, Antonio Scalise, Simona Alwardat, Mohammad Salimei, Chiara Giannini, Franco Saggio, Giovanni |
author_facet | Ricci, Mariachiara Di Lazzaro, Giulia Pisani, Antonio Scalise, Simona Alwardat, Mohammad Salimei, Chiara Giannini, Franco Saggio, Giovanni |
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description | Currently, clinical evaluation represents the primary outcome measure in Parkinson’s disease (PD). However, clinical evaluation may underscore some subtle motor impairments, hidden from the visual inspection of examiners. Technology-based objective measures are more frequently utilized to assess motor performance and objectively measure motor dysfunction. Gait and balance impairments, frequent complications in later disease stages, are poorly responsive to classic dopamine-replacement therapy. Although recent findings suggest that transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) can have a role in improving motor skills, there is scarce evidence for this, especially considering the difficulty to objectively assess motor function. Therefore, we used wearable electronics to measure motor abilities, and further evaluated the gait and balance features of 10 PD patients, before and (three days and one month) after the tDCS. To assess patients’ abilities, we adopted six motor tasks, obtaining 72 meaningful motor features. According to the obtained results, wearable electronics demonstrated to be a valuable tool to measure the treatment response. Meanwhile the improvements from tDCS on gait and balance abilities of PD patients demonstrated to be generally partial and selective. |
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spelling | pubmed-69607592020-01-23 Wearable Electronics Assess the Effectiveness of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation on Balance and Gait in Parkinson’s Disease Patients Ricci, Mariachiara Di Lazzaro, Giulia Pisani, Antonio Scalise, Simona Alwardat, Mohammad Salimei, Chiara Giannini, Franco Saggio, Giovanni Sensors (Basel) Article Currently, clinical evaluation represents the primary outcome measure in Parkinson’s disease (PD). However, clinical evaluation may underscore some subtle motor impairments, hidden from the visual inspection of examiners. Technology-based objective measures are more frequently utilized to assess motor performance and objectively measure motor dysfunction. Gait and balance impairments, frequent complications in later disease stages, are poorly responsive to classic dopamine-replacement therapy. Although recent findings suggest that transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) can have a role in improving motor skills, there is scarce evidence for this, especially considering the difficulty to objectively assess motor function. Therefore, we used wearable electronics to measure motor abilities, and further evaluated the gait and balance features of 10 PD patients, before and (three days and one month) after the tDCS. To assess patients’ abilities, we adopted six motor tasks, obtaining 72 meaningful motor features. According to the obtained results, wearable electronics demonstrated to be a valuable tool to measure the treatment response. Meanwhile the improvements from tDCS on gait and balance abilities of PD patients demonstrated to be generally partial and selective. MDPI 2019-12-11 /pmc/articles/PMC6960759/ /pubmed/31835822 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s19245465 Text en © 2019 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Ricci, Mariachiara Di Lazzaro, Giulia Pisani, Antonio Scalise, Simona Alwardat, Mohammad Salimei, Chiara Giannini, Franco Saggio, Giovanni Wearable Electronics Assess the Effectiveness of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation on Balance and Gait in Parkinson’s Disease Patients |
title | Wearable Electronics Assess the Effectiveness of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation on Balance and Gait in Parkinson’s Disease Patients |
title_full | Wearable Electronics Assess the Effectiveness of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation on Balance and Gait in Parkinson’s Disease Patients |
title_fullStr | Wearable Electronics Assess the Effectiveness of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation on Balance and Gait in Parkinson’s Disease Patients |
title_full_unstemmed | Wearable Electronics Assess the Effectiveness of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation on Balance and Gait in Parkinson’s Disease Patients |
title_short | Wearable Electronics Assess the Effectiveness of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation on Balance and Gait in Parkinson’s Disease Patients |
title_sort | wearable electronics assess the effectiveness of transcranial direct current stimulation on balance and gait in parkinson’s disease patients |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6960759/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31835822 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s19245465 |
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