TY - GEN
T1 - Parkinson’s Hand Tremor Simulator with a Double Crank-Crank Mechanism to Measure the Essential Frequency
AU - Silva, Rosa M.
AU - Vila, Sebastian A.
AU - Toque, Erick
AU - Gutiérrez, César
AU - Torres, Sebastian
AU - Elias, Dante A.
AU - Abarca, Victoria E.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2025.
PY - 2025
Y1 - 2025
N2 - This work aims to significantly contribute to collecting and analyzing data on hand tremors in patients with Parkinson’s disease, simplifying and enhancing the typical procedures of clinical studies related to this condition. Historically, the accurate measurement and evaluation of tremors in Parkinson’s patients has been a complex process that requires considerable time due to the necessity of obtaining detailed data on characteristic movements. Therefore, to facilitate these assessments, a tremor simulator based on a crank-slider mechanism has been proposed to replicate the hand trajectory in the typical tremor of Parkinson’s disease, which can be characterized by its amplitude, duration, and frequency. The latter factor is the primary focus of this work, analyzed through an inertial sensor and subsequently through the frequency spectrum of the obtained signals. This was done to validate the correspondence with Parkinson’s tremors, whose main harmonic is reported to be between 4 and 6 Hz by various authors. Tests were conducted with values within the desired frequency range, indicating the reliability of the developed prototype.
AB - This work aims to significantly contribute to collecting and analyzing data on hand tremors in patients with Parkinson’s disease, simplifying and enhancing the typical procedures of clinical studies related to this condition. Historically, the accurate measurement and evaluation of tremors in Parkinson’s patients has been a complex process that requires considerable time due to the necessity of obtaining detailed data on characteristic movements. Therefore, to facilitate these assessments, a tremor simulator based on a crank-slider mechanism has been proposed to replicate the hand trajectory in the typical tremor of Parkinson’s disease, which can be characterized by its amplitude, duration, and frequency. The latter factor is the primary focus of this work, analyzed through an inertial sensor and subsequently through the frequency spectrum of the obtained signals. This was done to validate the correspondence with Parkinson’s tremors, whose main harmonic is reported to be between 4 and 6 Hz by various authors. Tests were conducted with values within the desired frequency range, indicating the reliability of the developed prototype.
KW - Accelerometer
KW - Frequency
KW - Hand
KW - Mechanism
KW - Parkinson
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-031-89510-4_5
DO - 10.1007/978-3-031-89510-4_5
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:105006410252
SN - 9783031895098
T3 - IFMBE Proceedings
SP - 55
EP - 64
BT - 10th Latin American Congress on Biomedical Engineering - Proceedings of CLAIB 2024
A2 - Martinez-Licona, Fabiola M.
A2 - Ballarin, Virginia L.
A2 - Ibarra-Ramírez, Ernesto A.
A2 - Perez-Buitrago, Sandra M.
A2 - Berriere, Luis R.
PB - Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
T2 - 10th Latin American Congress of Biomedical Engineering, CLAIB 2024
Y2 - 2 October 2024 through 5 October 2024
ER -