Looking Forward to the Future: Bluetooth Technology helps Parkinson’s Patients
June 18, 2019
Parkinson's disease patients are taking control of their life with an app following deep brain stimulation surgery. Greg Smith's tremors came on suddenly and he quickly realized, following a diagnosis of Parkinson's disease, that traditional medication wasn't for him. "The medicine just made me feel like a zombie," Smith says. Greg's sister told him about a program at JFK Medical Center -- deep brain stimulation -- with a twist. Patients control the stimulating program through an app, in Smith's case, on an iPod.
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