McKnight’s Senior Living January 10, 2024
One of the most debilitating symptoms of Parkinson’s sufferers is the loss of control of their gait while walking.
Two technological breakthroughs could help Parkinson’s patients regain this control: Music-based software that helps stabilize the pace of walking, and a wearable robotic exoskeleton that would stabilize a user’s muscle movements.
The findings come from two separate studies out of Boston University’s Center for Neurorehabilitation, but they are not mutually exclusive. Senior living and care providers in the US may be able to look into multiple options for the hundreds of thousands of long-term care residents diagnosed with Parkinson’s.
While the music software program is based on a clinically validated technique — rhythmic auditory stimulation — the concept...
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