Technology-Assisted Rehabilitation of Writing Skills in Parkinson’s Disease: Visual Cueing versus Intelligent Feedback
Joint Authors
Nieuwboer, Alice
Farella, Elisabetta
Nackaerts, Evelien
Source
Issue
Vol. 2017, Issue 2017 (31 Dec. 2017), pp.1-7, 7 p.
Publisher
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Publication Date
2017-10-08
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
7
Main Subjects
Abstract EN
Recent research showed that visual cueing can have both beneficial and detrimental effects on handwriting of patients with Parkinson’s disease (PD) and healthy controls depending on the circumstances.
Hence, using other sensory modalities to deliver cueing or feedback may be a valuable alternative.
Therefore, the current study compared the effects of short-term training with either continuous visual cues or intermittent intelligent verbal feedback.
Ten PD patients and nine healthy controls were randomly assigned to one of these training modes.
To assess transfer of learning, writing performance was assessed in the absence of cueing and feedback on both trained and untrained writing sequences.
The feedback pen and a touch-sensitive writing tablet were used for testing.
Both training types resulted in improved writing amplitudes for the trained and untrained sequences.
In conclusion, these results suggest that the feedback pen is a valuable tool to implement writing training in a tailor-made fashion for people with PD.
Future studies should include larger sample sizes and different subgroups of PD for long-term training with the feedback pen.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Nackaerts, Evelien& Nieuwboer, Alice& Farella, Elisabetta. 2017. Technology-Assisted Rehabilitation of Writing Skills in Parkinson’s Disease: Visual Cueing versus Intelligent Feedback. Parkinson’s Disease،Vol. 2017, no. 2017, pp.1-7.
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Modern Language Association (MLA)
Nackaerts, Evelien…[et al.]. Technology-Assisted Rehabilitation of Writing Skills in Parkinson’s Disease: Visual Cueing versus Intelligent Feedback. Parkinson’s Disease No. 2017 (2017), pp.1-7.
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American Medical Association (AMA)
Nackaerts, Evelien& Nieuwboer, Alice& Farella, Elisabetta. Technology-Assisted Rehabilitation of Writing Skills in Parkinson’s Disease: Visual Cueing versus Intelligent Feedback. Parkinson’s Disease. 2017. Vol. 2017, no. 2017, pp.1-7.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1197157
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Record ID
BIM-1197157