Monitoring Parkinson's Disease patients

• External: Axxonet & Dr Walied Mowafi, Consultant Neurologist, Calderdale Hospital.
• One person in every 550 has PD in the UK; costing £2 billion annually
• PD is a chronic and progressive movement disorder, characterised by tremors, stiffness, slowness of movement and balance problems.
• PD patients have longer movement duration, smaller hand aperture and imbalance in force generation.
• Current patient assessment relies on subjective application of clinical criteria which is costly, time consuming and requires specialist clinicians
• With Axxonet, developing a glove to reliably and cheaply for personalised monitoring of tremor, movement, and grasp.