Motion analysis in Parkinson patients
Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) has proved to be a highly efficient treatment of symptoms related to Parkinson’s disease (PD). Assessing the severity of tremors is important especially before, during and after surgery to evaluate the patient's state, with and without DBS, and to quantify clinical changes.
Current methods such as the Unified Parkinson’s Disease Rating Scale (UPDRS) are mainly semiquantitative, with clinical rating scales relying on ordinal ratings anchored on descriptive terms such as “mild”, “moderate”, “severe”.
The objective of the present work was to develop a system based on an accelerometer fixed to the patient's wrist to quantitatively evaluate the patient's state.
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Discussion
Ongoing work
Project details
- Type
- Research project
- Research areas
- Methods and systems for neuronal stimulation
- University
- FHNW School of Life Sciences / Institute for Medical Engineering and Medical Informatics
Contact
Prof. Dr. Simone Hemm-Ode
Lecturer in neural engineering
- Phone
- +41 61 228 56 89
- simone.hemm@fhnw.ch