Listenmee® and Listenmee® smartphone application: Synchronizing walking to rhythmic auditory cues to improve gait in Parkinson's disease

Human Movement Science

Volumn 37, Issue , 2014, Pages 147-156

  Lopez, William Omar Contreras ^a,b   Higuera, Carlos Andres Escalante ^c   Fonoff, Erich Talamoni ^b   de Oliveira Souza, Carolina ^b   Albicker, Ulrich ^d   Martinez, Jairo Alberto Espinoza ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c Brainmee   (Spain)

^d INOMED MEDIZINTECHNIK GMBH   (Germany)

^e CIMAD   (Colombia)

Author keywords

Auditory cue; Gait; Idiopathic Parkinson's disease; Intelligent glasses system; Rhythmic auditory stimulation; Smartphone app; Smartwatch with accelerometer

Indexed keywords

ACCELEROMETER; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPENDENT VARIABLE; FEMALE; FREEZING; GAIT; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; MALE; MOBILE PHONE; PARKINSON DISEASE; RANGE OF MOTION; RHYTHMIC AUDITORY STIMULATION; SLEEP PATTERN; TASK PERFORMANCE; WALKING; WALKING SPEED; ACCELERATION; ASSOCIATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; MIDDLE AGED; MOBILE APPLICATION; NEUROLOGIC GAIT DISORDER; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SPECTACLES;

ACCELERATION; ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AGED; CELL PHONES; CUES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EYEGLASSES; FEMALE; GAIT; GAIT DISORDERS, NEUROLOGIC; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOBILE APPLICATIONS; PARKINSON DISEASE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; WALKING;

EID: 84907393789     PISSN: 01679457     EISSN: 18727646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.humov.2014.08.001     Document Type: Article

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