Parkinson’s KinetiGraph, PKG

Monitoring patients with Parkinson’s Disease is valuable in disease management in order to follow symptom severity, disease progression and treatment response. This implies using different measures of disease ratings scales. Rating scales used in Parkinson’s Disease is usually performed with rating items which are subjective and qualitative.

Parkinson’s KinetiGraph (PKG) is a wearable technology for an objective and quantitative measure of symptom severity which quantifies motor disturbances (dyskinesias and bradykinesias) reflecting disease severity.

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Parkinson disease Motor disturbance Wearable monitor

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Is PKG a validated method to measure motor disturbances in Parkinson’s Disease?

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