Updates from the CuePD-Extend study.
On Friday 2 October, the CuePD-Extend team presented the project to the UK Parkinson's Disease Clinical Studies Group (UK PD-CSG), a national group that develops and supports Parkinson's clinical research across the UK and works to give more people with Parkinson's the opportunity to take part in trials.
Visit the UK PD-CSGOn Wednesday 30 September, the project was presented as part of the seminar series at the Centre for Digital Innovations in Health and Social Care (CDIHSC), University of Bradford, a research centre developing and evaluating new digital health and social care technologies.
About CDIHSCThe Parkinson's North East and Cumbria Research Interest Group has published a blog post about CuePD, "From PhD research to a new community trial". It introduces the study and how it uses personalised music cueing to help improve walking for people living with Parkinson's.
Read the blog postCuePD-Extend is now underway at Northumbria University, working with colleagues from Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust. The study takes the CuePD app out of the clinic and into everyday life, testing personalised music cueing to help retrain gait for people with Parkinson's at home and in the community. Our laboratory validation of the approach has just been published open access in the Journal of Medical Systems.
Read the validation paper