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Wednesday Nov 17, 2021
How can technology help Parkinson‘s disease patients to manage their tremor?
Wednesday Nov 17, 2021
Wednesday Nov 17, 2021
How can technology help Parkinson's disease patients to manage their tremor?
In this episode, I feature a paper by Zhou and colleagues who optimized the design of a glove that can suppress tremor simultaneously, but independently, in the knuckle of the index finger, the thumb, and the wrist. In preliminary assessments, this glove achieved tremor suppression of 70 to 80%. Considering that the number of Parkinson's disease patients is estimated to double in the next 15 years, this type of technology will be an important contribution to society at large.
Full citation:
Zhou, Y., Ibrahim, A., Hardy, K. G., Jenkins, M. E., Naish, M. D., & Trejos, A. L. (2021). Design and Preliminary Performance Assessment of a Wearable Tremor Suppression Glove. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering.
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