I am very interested in your poster, particularly in the work on cueing devices to help establish step rhythm for people with Parkinsons. I was wondering if you tried this out on any people with this disease yet? My experience with my mom who suffers from this disease is that she knows that her step lengths are small but yet she can not increase them. There seems to be a disconnect between what her brain wills, and her body’s response. So that leads me to wonder if “knowing” that your stride length is short will help. Of course my experience is with a sample of one. Looking forward to hearing more.
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Dr. Falk,
Sorry for my delayed response to your comment, I just barely got back from a trip to Japan. We actually haven’t done any testing yet but plan to carry out some preliminary testing over the summer. There has been prior research done on the use of visual cues and auditory cues to help create a step rhythm that was also targeting step length and rhythm for PD patients and that study (although their sample size was rather small) showed a lot of promise. We are interested in seeing whether we can bridge that disconnect between the mind and body using haptics and touch based feedback that would be like the touch feedback you would get from a physical therapist.
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