Monitoring devices for patients with Parkinson's disease

Abstract

Parkinson's disease is a progressive neurodegenerative disease and motor complications such as wearing–off and the dyskinesia become problematic with disease progression. For the appropriate treatment, it is necessary to detect precisely the change of symptoms at home as well as in clinic. There is, however, no effective method other than depending on the subjective report of the patients such as a symptom diary for obtaining information of the symptom at home. To obtain objective information, there are several trial using the information and communication technology (ICT), which consists of telemedicine, electric medical record, and monitoring devices. Monitoring device can be divided to “wearable” monitoring device and “non-wearable” devices. In this manuscript current situation and future of application of monitoring device for Parkinson's disease will be reviewed.