Tetsuo Ashizawa

Getting on the Right Foot: Using Observational and Quantitative Methods to Evaluate Movement Disorders

Currently doctors rely on tools such as the Unified Parkinson’s Disease Rating Scale (MDS-UDPRS) and the Scale for the Assessment and Rating of Ataxia (SARA) to make diagnoses for movement disorders based on clinical observations of a patient’s motor movement. Observation-based assessments however are inherently subje…