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How could one know more about those gait-enabling devices? Maryse janet paterson a écrit: > Gait and Parkinson's disease: > a conceptual model for an augmented-reality based therapeutic device. > > This chapter presents an augmented-reality based therapeutic device > designed to overcome gait problems associated with Parkinson's Disease (PD). > > A normal model of gait is proposed followed by a model of Parkinsonian gait > with the goal of construction of a gait enabling therapeutic device. > > The fundamental underlying tenet of the model is that vision pathology is > responsible for the majority of Parkinsonian gait pathology. > > The basis for such a claim is the well documented phenomenon known as > Kinesia Paradoxa, whereby in the presence of certain so-called visual cues > a PD subject can be transformed from a totally immobile, helpless victim of > this disease into a near normal walking individual. > > Several gait-enabling devices are also described. > > Stud Health Technol Inform 1998;58:200-8 > Riess TJ > PMID: 10350920, UI: 99183550 > http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/ > > janet paterson > 52 now / 41 dx / 37 onset > Postal: PO Box 171, Almonte, Ontario, K0A 1A0, Canada > WebUrl: <http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Village/6263/> > E-mail: [log in to unmask]