Book chapter
Driving Risk in Patients with Movement Disorders
Movement Disorder Emergencies, pp.355-373
Current Clinical Neurology, Humana Press
10/16/2012
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-60761-835-5_26
Abstract
Impairments in cognition, visual perception, motor function, and increased daytime sleepiness reduce driving performance and safety in Parkinson’s disease (PD). Although drivers with PD perform worse than controls on experimental road and driving simulation studies, there is no well-established epidemiological association with increased crashes in drivers with PD. However, drivers with PD cease driving earlier than controls.
Medical diagnosis or a clinician’s assessment alone is inadequate to determine driving competence in drivers with PD. Although testing of motor, cognitive, and visual functions help to understand the mechanisms of driving impairment in PD, there are no established guidelines on assessing driver fitness in PD. There are no evidence based methods for driver rehabilitation in PD.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Driving Risk in Patients with Movement Disorders
- Creators
- Ergun Y. Uc - University of Iowa
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Publication Details
- Movement Disorder Emergencies, pp.355-373
- Series
- Current Clinical Neurology
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-1-60761-835-5_26
- Publisher
- Humana Press; Totowa, NJ
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 10/16/2012
- Academic Unit
- Neurology
- Record Identifier
- 9984302211502771
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