Professional and research skills - Essay Example

Further, it has been stated that with reference to various past studies that vibration, visual and auditory can help improve gait in Parkinson disease patients. As references from some other relevant studies have also been provided to evidenced the fact that vibratory stimulation can bring positive changes in gait impairment among patients of all age group (Winfree, et al. 2012). This study particularly focuses on effectiveness of vibratory shoes specifically designed for Parkinson patients to have gait free movement.

From the introduction of the study it has been noticed that researchers have not explicitly defined impairment Parkinson patients suffer and how they aim to improve that impairment with the use of PD shoes. This point is noticeable, as other studies such as a research entitled as "A Training Program to Improve Gait While Dual Tasking in Patients with Parkinson’s disease: A Pilot Study", by Yogev-Seligmann, et al. (2012), defined that impairment include an ability of a person to walk to improper movement and an inability to manage other tasks while walking, which creased risk of falling.

This research study is unlike many other qualitative studies as next heading of the research paper is not followed by adopted method or methodology, but authors present design of the shoes they have introduced. However, in this study researchers have discussed that for designing desirable shoes prototype components were used and microprocessor platform is used for rapid development platform, but why researchers have preferred elastic nature of the shoes has not been reasoned (Winfree, et al. 2012).

Although, researchers have not discussed method of data collection and those sources that could prove the construction of shoes of suitable for gait impairment. However, the way researchers have discussed each feature of PD shoes is commendable. Authors have discussed design and functioning of the shoes under separate headings. First heading