Kinesia ^™

Kinesia is a compact medical device for objectively quantifying motor symptoms of movement disorders such as Parkinson′s disease and essential tremor. Kinesia is worn on the finger and wrist of the patient and wirelessly transmits symptom information to a nearby computer for display, analysis, automated symptom scoring, report generation and storage.

Kinesia can be used with Parkinson′s disease patients to monitor the kinematics of motor symptoms such as tremor and bradykinesia. A 0-4 tremor severity score is automatically assigned that correlates to the current gold standard, the Unified Parkinson′s Disease Rating Scale. This information can be useful for monitoring Parkinson’s disease symptom severity in the clinic as well as at home, allowing clinicians to track patient symptom fluctuations throughout the day as well as symptom response to treatment interventions such as medication or deep brain stimulation surgery. Kinesia provides an objective standardized platform which clinicians and movement disorder specialists can use in conjunction with standard evaluations to improve overall patient care.

Kinesia can be used in a number of instances in which objective quantification of upper extremity Parkinson′s disease and essential tremor motor symptoms is desired. The Kinesia system can be used to objectively monitor movement disorder motor symptom severity during a typical in-clinic exam as well as at patients′ homes for consecutive days or weeks. In any location, Kinesia can monitor motor symptom response to medication dose and time and track the kinematics of tremor on/off time.

The device can also be a useful research tool for many types of movement disorder motion analysis as well as evaluating treatment interventions such as deep brain stimulation. Kinesia can be used in pharmaceutical trials in which new drugs are being developed and evaluated to treat movement disorders such as Parkinson’s Disease. The Kinesia system provides a standardized platform in which the motor effects of drugs can be consistently and objectively quantified instead of relying on more subjective methods such as rating scales and patient diaries.

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