[PDF][PDF] Parkinson's disease--Part 1: Pathophysiology, symptoms, burden, diagnosis, and assessment

D Weintraub, CL Comella, S Horn - Am J Manag Care, 2008 - ajmc.s3.amazonaws.com
Parkinson's disease (PD) is a chronic neurodegenerative disease associated with
substantial morbidity, increased mortality, and high economic burden. Of importance to …

Speech treatment for Parkinson's disease

LO Ramig, C Fox, S Sapir - Expert review of neurotherapeutics, 2008 - Taylor & Francis
Researchers estimate that 89% of people with Parkinson's disease (PD) have speech and
voice disorders including disorders of laryngeal, respiratory and articulatory function …

Current and projected future economic burden of Parkinson's disease in the US

W Yang, JL Hamilton, C Kopil, JC Beck… - npj Parkinson's …, 2020 - nature.com
Parkinson's disease (PD) is one of the world's fastest growing neurological disorders. Much
is unknown about PD-associated economic burdens in the United States (US) and other …

The current and projected economic burden of Parkinson's disease in the United States

SL Kowal, TM Dall, R Chakrabarti… - Movement …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Parkinson's disease (PD), following Alzheimer's disease, is the second‐most common
neurodegenerative disorder in the United States. A lack of treatment options for changing …

Estimating the economic burden of racial health inequalities in the United States

TA LaVeist, D Gaskin, P Richard - International Journal of …, 2011 - journals.sagepub.com
The primary hypothesis of this study is that racial/ethnic disparities in health and health care
impose costs on numerous aspects of society, both direct health care costs and indirect …

Projection of the prevalence of Parkinson's disease in the coming decades: Revisited

A Rossi, K Berger, H Chen, D Leslie… - Movement …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Objective Previous studies have estimated future PD prevalence based on population aging.
This study revisits that projection by accounting for the potential impact of declining rates of …

The effects of adapted tango on spatial cognition and disease severity in Parkinson's disease

KE McKee, ME Hackney - Journal of motor behavior, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
The authors determined effects of community-based adapted tango on spatial cognition and
disease severity in Parkinson's disease (PD) while controlling for the effects of social …

Randomized controlled clinical trial of “virtual house calls” for Parkinson disease

ER Dorsey, V Venkataraman, MJ Grana, MT Bull… - JAMA …, 2013 - jamanetwork.com
Importance The burden of neurological disorders is increasing, but access to care is limited.
Providing specialty care to patients via telemedicine could help alleviate this growing …

PERFORM: a system for monitoring, assessment and management of patients with Parkinson's disease

AT Tzallas, MG Tsipouras, G Rigas, DG Tsalikakis… - Sensors, 2014 - mdpi.com
In this paper, we describe the PERFORM system for the continuous remote monitoring and
management of Parkinson's disease (PD) patients. The PERFORM system is an intelligent …

Physical therapy in Parkinson's disease: evolution and future challenges

SHJ Keus, M Munneke, MJ Nijkrake… - Movement …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Even with optimal medical management using drugs or neurosurgery, patients with
Parkinson's disease (PD) are faced with progressively increasing mobility problems. For this …