Feasibility of adapting a classroom balance training program to a video game platform for people with Parkinson's disease

Telemedicine and e-Health

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 298-304

  Dowling, Glenna A ^a   Hone, Robert ^b   Brown, Charles ^b   Mastick, Judy ^a   Melnick, Marsha ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Red Hill Studios   (United States)

Author keywords

e health; Home health monitoring; Telemedicine

Indexed keywords

EHEALTH; HOME HEALTH MONITORING; ITERATIVE FASHION; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PARKINSON'S DISEASE; POSTURAL STABILITY; TECHNICAL FEASIBILITY; THERAPEUTIC ACTIVITY;

ITERATIVE METHODS; NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES; TELEMEDICINE; VIRTUAL REALITY;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

AGED; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; GAIT; HUMAN; KINESIOTHERAPY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARKINSON DISEASE; PATIENT ACUITY; PROCEDURES; SOCIOECONOMICS; VERY ELDERLY; VIDEO GAME; WALKING DIFFICULTY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EXERCISE THERAPY; FEMALE; GAIT; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOBILITY LIMITATION; PARKINSON DISEASE; PATIENT ACUITY; POSTURAL BALANCE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; VIDEO GAMES;

EID: 84893496408     PISSN: 15305627     EISSN: 15563669     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/tmj.2012.0055     Document Type: Article

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