A Wearable Accelerometer System for Unobtrusive Monitoring of Parkinson's Diease Motor Symptoms

Parkinson's disease is a complex condition currently monitored at home with paper diaries which rely on subjective and unreliable assessment of motor function at nonstandard time intervals. We present an innovative wearable and unobtrusive monitoring system for patients which can help provide physicians with significantly improved assessment of patients' responses to drug therapies and lead to better-targeted treatment regimens. In this paper we describe the algorithmic development of the system and an evaluation in patients for assessing the onset and duration of advanced PD motor symptoms.

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