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A safe and simple way of monitoring dyskinesia in the patient’s own home, providing the specialist with the means to adjust medication to manage side-effects more effectively.
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Many Parkinson’s disease patients experience unpleasant side effects with their medication which include involuntary movements called dyskinesia. LID-Monitor offers a safe, simple and unobtrusive way of monitoring dyskinesia in the patient’s own home and provides the specialist with the means to adjust the medication to managed side-effects more effectively. The system simply requires the patient to wear six small wireless sensors, one on each arm, leg, head and trunk that continually monitor the patient’s movements over periods of up to 24 hours. Movements associated with dyskinesia and the symptoms of Parkinson’s disease are recognised by the system and transmitted electronically to the Specialist in an easy to interpret graph. How the device works: Information from the sensors can be automatically uploaded via a smart phone to a remote secure server on which a biological inspired learning algorithm is used to recognise symptoms associated with the side effects of medication (dyskinesia) and the disease itself. An easy-to interpret graphical report is then created which can be sent directly to the Specialist to aid management of the patient’s medication.