Journal of Alzheimers Disease & Parkinsonism
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Thurmon Lockhart

Department of Bio-Engineering, Gait Laboratory, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA

Biography

Thurmon Lockhart is Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the Iria Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University, School of Biological and Health Systems Engineering , Prof. Dr. Lockhart has been appointed as a Guest Professor with the Department and is teaching the course on Ergonomics for our Graduate students. He also supervises graduate student research in the area of Ergonomics and Biomedical Engineering. Prof. Dr. Lockhart is the Editor of Ergonomics (Taylor and Francis), and the Associate Editor of Annals of Biomedical Engineering (Springer).

Publications

Falls in Parkinson Disease

Falls are a major risk for Parkinson disease patients (PD). We sought to understand why patients fall. In one study we followed 404 PD patients for a year, 204 of who fell at least once. We did not distinguish between single and recurrent fallers. In a second study we followed 249 different patients for a year, 205 of whom fell once and 44 fell mor... Read More»

Abraham Lieberman, Aman Deep and Thurmon Lockhart

Research Article: J Alzheimers Dis Parkinsonism

DOI: 10.4172/2161-0460.1000248

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