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Path Finder - a shoe attachment to alleviate 'freezing of gait' in Parkinson's

Shared by walkwithpath on 2017-06-28 08:43

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Path Finder is a shoe attachment that provides visual cues to help people with unsteady and irregular gait. This is particularly helpful to people with neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson's disease, who commonly suffer from freezing of gait (FoG), a symptom causing an individual to feel as if frozen to the ground.

Path Finder projects a horizontal line on the ground in front of the user, at a set distance from the feet. This gives the wearer a visual cue to step across, and acts as an external stimulus to trigger walking. The visual cue is projected from each foot in turn. The device on the left foot projects in front of the right foot and vice versa. Each cue is projected from the foot only once placed on the ground, thus producing a static cue.

For more information about Path Finder, see https://www.walkwithpath.com/path-finder.

For a video with a patient, describing his condition and demonstrating a walk test, see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okaeWC7poxM.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHnijS_VG3A

This solution shall not include mention to the use of drugs, chemicals or biologicals (including food); invasive devices; offensive, commercial or inherently dangerous content. This solution was not medically validated. Proceed with caution! If you have any doubts, please consult with a health professional.

About the author

Lise founded Walk With Path in 2014, inspired by her father's struggle with Parkinson. Having watched his disease progress for more than ten years, she felt the need to try and resolve some of the issues he lived with on a daily basis. Freezing was a particularly debilitating symptom, that had resulted in several falls. Although he was taking medication several times a day, it seemed to make no effect on his freezing. Lise therefore went about looking for solutions utilising other means, and was particularly interested in producing a user-centric solution with no side effects.

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Comments (6)

  • WesTunrbull20 • Thu, 01/07/2021 - 10:39

    I stopped the Parkinson's medications prescribed due to severe side effects and started on natural treatments from VineHealth Clinic (VHC) in California, the herbal treatment has made a tremendous difference for me. My symptoms including tremors and muscle weakness all disappeared after the months long treatment! Go to ww w. vinehealthclinic. c om..... simply amazing!  

  • KarenMcNicholas • Thu, 10/14/2021 - 15:41

    At the end of the full treatment course, the disease is totally under control. No case of dementia, hallucination, weakness, muscle pain or tremors. family doctor started me on KycuyuHealth Clinic Parkinson's Disease Herbal mixture, 2 months into treatment I improved dramatically. At the end of the full treatment course, the disease is totally under control. No case of dementia, hallucination, weakness, muscle pain or tremors. visit kycuyuhealthclinic . c o m

  • Mary Belinda • Wed, 08/17/2022 - 01:29

    My husband was diagnosed of Parkinsons disease 2 years ago, when he was 59. He had a stooped posture, tremors, right arm does not move and also a pulsating feeling in his body. He was placed on Senemet for 8 months and then Siferol was introduced and replaced the Senemet, during this time span he was also diagnosed with dementia. He started having hallucinations, lost touch with. Suspecting it was the medication I took him off the Siferol (with the doctor’s knowledge)  him on PD natural herbal formula we ordered from TREE OF LIFE HEALTH CLINIC, his symptoms totally declined over a 3 weeks use of the TREE OF LIFE HEALTH Parkinson's disease natural herbal formula. He is now  almost 61 and doing very well, the disease is totally reversed!  (w w w. treeoflifeherbalclinic .com)

  • KarenMcNicholas • Fri, 10/21/2022 - 05:15

    At the end of the full treatment course, the disease is totally under control. No case of dementia, hallucination, weakness, muscle pain or tremors. family doctor started me on Health Herbs Clinic Parkinson's Disease Herbal mixture, 2 months into treatment I improved dramatically. At the end of the full treatment course, the disease is totally under control. No case of dementia, hallucination, weakness, muscle pain or tremors. visit healthherbsclinic . c o m

  • conniesimonton48 • Fri, 02/03/2023 - 12:46

    My grandma has Parkinson’s disease, she is about 75 years old it was detected 7 years ago. Right now it’s getting more difficult to live for her, because of stiff muscles she can’t even move. L-dopa and carbidopa medicines are given, but won"t give much relief. She can"t eat food and the skin is damaging forming ganglia. I thought this might be the last stage and the medications she was given did not help at all, so I started to do alot of research on natural treatments and came across Parkinson’s Herbal Treatment from Health Natural Centre ( healthnaturalcentre .org ), the treatment has made a very huge difference for her. Her symptoms including body weakness and her tremors disappeared after few months on the treatment. She is getting active again since starting this treatment, she is able to walk again ( down the street and back ) and able to ride her treadmill again. God Bless all PD Caregivers. Stay Strong, take small moments throughout the day to thank yourself, to love your self, and pray to whatever faith, star, spiritual force you believe in and ask for strength. I can personally vouch for these remedy but you would probably need to decide what works best for you.

  • Bonniechismar • Tue, 04/04/2023 - 07:40

    My husband who had been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease for 2 years at the age of 63 had all his symptoms reversed with Ayurveda medicine from natural herbs centre . com after undergoing their Parkinson’s natural protocol. God Bless all Parkinson’s Caregivers. Stay Strong, take small moments throughout the day to thank yourself, to love your self, and pray to whatever faith, star, spiritual force you believe in and ask for strength. I can personally vouch for these remedy but you would probably need to decide what works best for you.

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