Designing Auditory Cues for Parkinson's Disease Gait Rehabilitation

Journal

Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society

Year

2014

Abstract

Recent works have proved that Parkinson's disease (PD) patients can be largely benefit by performing rehabilitation exercises based on audio cueing and music therapy. Specially, gait can benefit from repetitive sessions of exercises using auditory cues. Nevertheless, all the experiments are based on the use of a metronome as auditory stimuli. Within this work, Human-Computer Interaction methodologies have been used to design new cues that could benefit the long-term engagement of PD patients in these repetitive routines. The study has been also extended to commercial music and musical pieces by analyzing features and characteristics that could benefit the engagement of PD patients to rehabilitation tasks.

Music and Health Institute Terms

Gait; Mobility; Music Therapy; Neurodegenerative Disorders; Parkinson's Disease; Recreative Music Methods; Rehabilitation Exercises; Rhythmic Auditory Stimulation

Indexed Terms

Acoustic Stimulation; Elderly; Cues; Exercise Therapy; Gait; Gait Disorders, Neurologic; Parkinson Disease

Study Type

Editorial, Opinions, Position Papers

Document Type

Article

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