Clinical assessment of a new wearable tool for continuous and objective recording of motor fluctuations and ON/OFF states in patients with Parkinson's disease.

ABSTRACT: Clinical rating scales typically includes subjective evaluations, and their time-limited duration may fail to capture daily fluctuations in motor symptoms resulting from Parkinson's disease (PD). Recently, a new tool (i.e. the PD-Watch) has been proposed for the objective and continuous assessment of PD motor manifestations based on evaluating frequency data from a wrist-worn tri-axial accelerometer and identifying specific movement patterns typically associated with disorders. This reduces the probability of confusing physiological or pathological movements occurring at the same frequency. In this work, we present a new method for assessing motor fluctuations through a wrist-worn accelerometer. We also explore the agreement between the continuous data generated by the proposed method and

SUBMITTER: Battista L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10553324 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature