“This technology might come in handy to those who don’t want to haul their sick relatives with Parkinson’s all the way to a clinician for visual observation of the progress of disease. To test whether telemedicine is an appropriate option for getting patients and physicians together, and whether the technology is good enough to observe resting tremor, bradykinesia, rigidity, postural instability, and other symptoms of Parkinson’s, doctors Kevin Biglan and Ray Dorsey from University of Rochester Medical Center enrolled a group of elderly Parkinson’s patients from the Presbyterian Home for Central New York into a pilot study that has yielded promising results.”
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MedGadget, 23 June 2009
