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. 2020 May 9;20(9):2713.
doi: 10.3390/s20092713.

Wearable Solutions for Patients with Parkinson's Disease and Neurocognitive Disorder: A Systematic Review

Asma Channa  1 , Nirvana Popescu  1 , Vlad Ciobanu  1
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Wearable Solutions for Patients with Parkinson's Disease and Neurocognitive Disorder: A Systematic Review

Asma Channa et al. Sensors (Basel). .

Abstract

Prevalence of neurocognitive diseases in adult patients demands the use of wearable devices to transform the future of mental health. Recent development in wearable technology proclaimed its use in diagnosis, rehabilitation, assessment, and monitoring. This systematic review presents the state of the art of wearables used by Parkinson's disease (PD) patients or the patients who are going through a neurocognitive disorder. This article is based on PRISMA guidelines, and the literature is searched between January 2009 to January 2020 analyzing four databases: PubMed, IEEE Xplorer, Elsevier, and ISI Web of Science. For further validity of articles, a new PEDro-inspired technique is implemented. In PEDro, five statistical indicators were set to classify relevant articles and later the citations were also considered to make strong assessment of relevant articles. This led to 46 articles that met inclusion criteria. Based on them, this systematic review examines different types of wearable devices, essential in improving early diagnose and monitoring, emphasizing their role in improving the quality of life, differentiating the various fitness and gait wearable-based exercises and their impact on the regression of disease and on the motor diagnosis tests and finally addressing the available wearable insoles and their role in rehabilitation. The research findings proved that sensor based wearable devices, and specially instrumented insoles, help not only in monitoring and diagnosis but also in tracking numerous exercises and their positive impact towards the improvement of quality of life among different Parkinson and neurocognitive patients.

Keywords: Parkinson’s disorder; Parkinson’s patients; neurocognitive disorder; rehabilitation exercises; wearable sensors.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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PRISMA adapted flow diagram used for the articles’ systematic selection.
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Figure 2
Stages adopted for the systematic selection of articles.
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Figure 3
(a) shows Normal person gait and (b) shows PD patient gait.
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