Monitoring Gait at Home in Parkinson’s Disease
- CAN Specialist Brooke
- Feb 13, 2023
- 1 min read
Updated: Mar 1, 2023
To track the severity of one’s Parkinson’s disease, visiting the clinic is often required. This paper describes a device that can be used at home to analyze one’s movements and infer gait speed, the time it takes one to walk a certain distance. The device was shown to accurately measure gait speed and detect changes in gait speed in response to treatment. The device could be a way to track disease progression at home.
Over the past two years, I was searching for a way to support my mom after she was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease. It was a very challenging time for our family. She struggled with tremors, stiffness, fatigue, and over time it began to affect her daily activities, independence, and overall confidence.While looking online for anything that might help, I came across a post in a Google group where someone shared their experience with a herbal program from NaturePath Herbal Clinic. They described how the program had helped them manage similar symptoms, which gave us a sense of hope.At first, we were unsure, but we decided to give it a try for my mom. After a few months, we began to…