Parkinson’s: how the app works that helps patients and makes it easier for them to use their mobile phone

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The rise of artificial intelligence applied to medicine has led to an application focused on Parkinson’s treatmenta disease affecting 8.5 million people worldwide, according to WHO data.

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The company europharma launched in late April Flow therapyan app that allows patients interact on social media using facial expressions, and thus facilitates the use of mobile phones. The presentation took place at the Brazilian Embassy in Argentina.

Scrolling Therapy can be downloaded for free from the Google Play Store.

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Scrolling Therapy can be downloaded for free from the Google Play Store.

While not a substitute for any established medical treatment, this application is for Android mobile phones and tablets help patients to do physiotherapy work delay the progression of neurological disease.

Parkinson’s: How the Scrolling Therapy app works

When the user starts browsing the feed, five facial gestures are set up in the platform that will execute commands on the screen.

When the user starts browsing the feed, five facial gestures are set up in the platform that will execute commands on the screen.

After downloading it to a mobile device, be it a phone or a tablet, a short tutorial will load, after which the user will only have to open it on the screen to automatically integrate with Facebook and Instagram.

Then, when you log into either social network, the tool will already be up and running.

When the user starts navigating the feed, there will be five facial gestures set up in the platform that will execute the commands on the screen, such as: As the patient progresses through the exercises, messages will appear on the screen indicating the success of the execution of the exercises the expressions

At the end of 45 minutes of activity, the daily goal is reached.

Actor Michael J. Fox is a leading proponent in the fight against Parkinson's, a disease he began suffering from in 1991. Photo: AP.

Actor Michael J. Fox is a leading proponent in the fight against Parkinson’s, a disease he began suffering from in 1991. Photo: AP.

Brazil-based biopharmaceutical multinational Eurofarma and global creative agency Dentsu Creative were the main promoters of this app, which can now be downloaded for free from the store. Google Play Store and is currently available in three languages: English, Portuguese and Spanish.

It also had the support of the Brazilian Parkinson’s Society and the innovation was conceived in Argentina.

At Dentsu Creative they promoted the idea, united to develop it in support of their colleague Sebastián Porta, a patient with the disorder, who expressed the need to do something to help the community of Parkinson’s patients.

Source: Clarin

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