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Gait analysis of parkinson’s disease patients

Abstract

With the increase of the population of the elderly people, Parkinson’s disease (PD) gets more and more ordinary in our society. PD is known as the second common neurological disorder and highly impacts on both economic and social aspects, due to its high cost of the care for the patients. According to our text mining-based research analysing papers concerning PD published in the recent years (2014-2017) for the purpose of identification of recent interesting topics in it, the term ‘gait’ has gained the highest attention. Gait analysis, in fact, plays a crucial role to make a prediction of PD, its early detection, its diagnosis and even prevention of the risk of fall.

Hee-Cheol Kim

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