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I don't know about this one...hummm!


Video monitoring improves therapy for sufferers of Parkinson's

Berlin - Outpatients with Parkinson's Disease can benefit from a new, video-supported therapy which helps match their medication with their individual needs at home, according to the Berlin-based Professional Association of German Neurologists (BDN). If for example, the medication has been changed, patients are given an easy-to-operate camera for one month. About three or four times a day, the patient sits in front of the video and activates the recording.

"The doctor then views the images, sent to him automatically, and can discuss therapy changes with the patient on the telephone," says Karl-Otto Sigel, a neurologist from Unterhaching and member of BDN's board of directors.

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[VixSparebitz]

Now there's a great use of technology. Someone certainly was thinking when they came up with that idea & the lightbulb went off.
I can see more & more of this happening what with camera phones & internet potential for assistance for those in various neurological & changing diseases/syndromes, not just with Parkinsons.

cudos to those implementing such aid,


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