Tele-diagnostics for Remote Parkinson's Monitoring

Great Lakes NeuroTechnologies

Status: Completed

Conditions: Parkinson's Disease

Treatments: Device: Kinesia HomeView

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other; Industry

Identifiers

NCT01356056

10-09-29-03EE

7R43NS065554-03 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

5R43MD004049-02 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this research study is to design, implement, and clinically assess a portable, user worn system for monitoring Parkinson's disease (PD) motor symptoms. The current standard in evaluating symptoms is the Unified Parkinson's Disease Rating Scale (UPDRS), a subjective, qualitative ranking system. The main goal of this research is to develop a quantitative system, Kinesia HomeView, to assess tremor as well as different features of bradykinesia in a home based system which can capture those symptom changes over the course of a day and aid in evaluating treatment protocol efficacy.

Enrollment: 12 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Clinical diagnosis of Parkinson's disease

Exclusion criteria

• Inability to follow the required clinical instruction
• Subjects with cognitive impairments that would prohibit them from properly using the Kinesia HomeView system
• Subjects without the cognitive ability to respond to researchers and let them know when any parameters of the study may become uncomfortable
• Subjects found on examination by our clinicians to have any physical limitations which would be counter productive to participation in this study.

Trial design

12 participants in 2 patient groups

Kinesia HomeView Monitoring

Description:

Uses Kinesia HomeView at home once per week

Treatment:

Device: Kinesia HomeView

Control

Description:

Assessed in the clinic every 4 weeks using traditional methods