Sensor device for testing activities in Parkinson and ALS patients

Author

Grandez, K. ; Solas, G. ; Bustamante, P. ; Sedano, B.

Author_Institution

Electron. & Commun. Dept., CEIT & Tecnun (Univ. of Navarra), San Sebastian, Spain

fYear

2010

fDate

22-25 March 2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

The diagnosis and treatment of neurodegenerative diseases has become a key point in nowadays European healthcare system. However, the underlying testing and monitorization processes haven´t experienced the innovation and advancement required to fulfill the needs that such diagnosis and treatment present. In this paper we propose a new testing device for Parkinson Disease and Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis patients. The device is designed to carry out two of the most used tests for these patients: the finger-tapping test and the hand-grip strength test. The designed system has been divided in three main blocks, which have been implemented and tested: a sensorized glove, equipped with Force Sensitive Resistors (FSR), a tiny hardware device which gathers the data and a PC application, which presents the results to the doctors. This work is part funded by the ICT programme of the European Commission (PERFORM Project: FP7-ICT-2007-1-215952).

Keywords

biomedical electronics; health care; patient diagnosis; finger-tapping test; hand-grip strength test; healthcare system; neurodegenerative diseases; sensor device; testing activities; Degenerative diseases; Europe; Fingers; Force sensors; Muscles; Neurons; Parkinson´s disease; Patient monitoring; Spinal cord; Testing; ALS; Parkinson; embedded system; finger tapping; force sensitive resistor; hand grip strength; sensor device;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare (PervasiveHealth), 2010 4th International Conference on-NO PERMISSIONS

Conference_Location

Munich

Print_ISBN

978-963-9799-89-9

Electronic_ISBN

978-963-9799-89-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.4108/ICST.PERVASIVEHEALTH2010.8867

Filename

5482277