Anordnung und Verfahren zur Erkennung von Tremor, insbesondere bei Parkinsonismus

摘要

A system is provided with an accelerometer (20) for the determination of various movements, such as Parkinson's Disease. The movement signals are analyzed to determine whether they are in a predetermined frequency range, and whether there occurs an uninterrupted series of such movement signals within that frequency range. By determining if these two criteria are met, tremor signals are reliably discriminated from other activity signals. The system includes circuitry (21) for collecting and storing data related to the timing of tremor occurrences, the timing of other activity occurrences, and amplitude data related to tremor occurrences.