WO2018028221A1

WO2018028221A1 - Wearable device for assisting recovery of patients with parkinson's disease

Info

Publication number: WO2018028221A1
Application number: PCT/CN2017/079362
Authority: WO
Inventors: 张贯京; 高伟明
Original assignee: 深圳市前海安测信息技术有限公司
Priority date: 2016-08-06
Filing date: 2017-04-01
Publication date: 2018-02-15
Also published as: CN206424425U

Abstract

A wearable device for assisting the recovery of patients with parkinson's disease, comprising a flexible circuit board (1), two ends of the flexible circuit board (1) being respectively connected with a wristband (2) and a finger hook (3). The flexible circuit board (1) is provided with an infrared detector (11), an infrared laser (12), an inertial sensor (13), a communication interface (15) and a micro-controller (14); the infrared detector (11), infrared laser (12), inertial sensor (13) and communication interface (15) are all electrically connected to the micro-controller (14). A pulse electrode (21) is provided on the wristband (2), and the pulse electrode (21) is electrically connected to the micro-controller (14). The wearable device may lessen the impact of inconvenient upper extremity movements caused by hand tremors in patients with Parkinson's disease, such that patients take more initiative to move their arms, which provides the basis for medical doctors in conducting recovery treatment for patients with Parkinson's disease, so as to achieve the effect of assisting the recovery of patients with Parkinson's disease.

Description

Wearable device for assisting rehabilitation of patients with Parkinson's disease

[0001] The present invention relates to the field of health care, and more particularly to a wearable device for assisting rehabilitation of a patient with Parkinson's disease.

Background technique

[0002] Parkinson's Disease (PD), also known as tremor paralysis syndrome. Parkinson's syndrome is a chronic degenerative disorder of the central nervous system. According to statistics, there are currently about 5 million patients with Parkinson's disease worldwide. With the growing problem of old age in China, Parkinson's disease has seriously threatened the health of middle-aged and elderly people in China. Patients with Parkinson's disease usually have varying degrees of dyskinesia symptoms, clinically characterized by resting tremor, bradykinesia, muscle stiffness, and posture gait disorders. The resting tremor of Parkinson's patients is due to the multiple contraction movements of the upper limbs to the antagonist muscles. The tremor frequency is generally between 3 Hz and 9 Hz, and the tremor signal source is located in the neuronal activity network of the cerebral cortex. The occurrence of resting tremor in the upper limb not only affects the patient's physical posture, but also has a greater negative effect on the patient's daily living ability and quality of life. The active activity of the upper limbs is decreased, the body discomfort, daily activities are limited, and emotional communication is performed. And cognitive impairments, etc. At present, the treatment of Parkinson's disease is divided into drug therapy and physical therapy. Although drug therapy is currently the mainstream treatment, the risk of misdiagnosis and drug side effects is also present. Although physical therapy is a better method, it is lacking. Appropriate auxiliary tools to help patients better treatment, and can not persist for a long time, the treatment effect is not obvious. Therefore, it is necessary to provide a wearable device for assisting the rehabilitation of patients with Parkinson's disease to assist patients with Parkinson's disease for rehabilitation. technical problem

[0003] The main object of the present invention is to provide a wearable device for assisting the rehabilitation of patients with Parkinson's disease, aiming at solving the problem of how to assist rehabilitation patients in Parkinson's disease.

Problem solution

Technical solution

[0004] In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides a wearable device for assisting rehabilitation of a patient with Parkinson's disease, the wearable device comprising a flexible circuit board, and a wristband and a finger are respectively connected at two ends of the flexible circuit board. a hook, the flexible circuit board is provided with an infrared detector, an infrared laser, an inertial sensor, a communication interface, and a microcontroller, wherein the infrared detector, the infrared laser, the inertial sensor, and the communication interface are electrically connected to the micro control On the wristband, a pulse electrode is disposed on the wristband, and the pulse electrode is electrically connected to the microcontroller, wherein:

[0005] The infrared detector is used to detect the position of a target item around a patient with Parkinson's disease;

[0006] the infrared laser is used to emit an infrared vision aperture to illuminate the position of the target item;

[0007] the pulse electrode is used to generate an electrical stimulation pulse transmitted to the phrenic nerve of the hand of a patient with Parkinson's disease;

[0008] the inertial sensor is configured to sense tremor data of a hand of a Parkinson's disease patient, and send tremor data of a hand of a Parkinson's disease patient to the microcontroller;

[0009] The microcontroller is configured to send tremor data of a hand of a Parkinson's disease patient to the health management platform of the medical health center through the communication interface.

[0010] Preferably, the wristband is a retractable elastic wristband for wearing on the wrist of a patient with Parkinson's disease.

[0011] Preferably, the finger hook is a J-shaped curved structure, and the curved section of the finger hook is hooked in the finger slit of the Parkinson's disease patient.

[0012] Preferably, the outer portion of the flexible circuit board is covered with a casing made of a flexible waterproof material.

[0013] Preferably, a connecting strap is disposed between the flexible circuit board and the wristband, and the connecting strap is a flexible strap.

[0014] Preferably, the flexible circuit board is provided with a voice player connected to the microcontroller, and the voice player is used for playing a rehabilitation training instruction of a patient with Parkinson's disease and taking a medication.

[0015] Preferably, the inertial sensor is a six-axis inertial sensor, and the six-axis inertial sensor comprises a three-axis gyroscope and a three-axis acceleration sensor.

[0016] Preferably, the inertial sensor is a nine-axis inertial sensor including a three-axis gyroscope, a three-axis acceleration sensor, and a three-axis magnetic induction sensor.

[0017] Preferably, the flexible circuit board is further provided with a micro battery for providing working power for the wearable device.

[0018] Preferably, the flexible circuit board is further provided with a charging port, and the charging port is connected to the micro battery for plugging an external power source to charge the micro battery.

Advantageous effects of the invention

Beneficial effect [0019] Compared with the prior art, the wearable device for assisting the rehabilitation of patients with Parkinson's disease adopts the above technical solution, and achieves the following technical effects: guiding the patients with Parkinson's disease to discover the target through visual stimulation The article, thereby assisting the patient with Parkinson's disease to visually recognize the target item; generating an electrical stimulation pulse through the pulse electrode to the phrenic nerve of the patient's hand to suppress resting tremor of the patient's hand, thereby reducing the upper limb of the hand tremor The inconvenience of exercise can increase the initiative of upper limb activity in patients with Parkinson's disease. In addition, the tremor data of the hand of Parkinson's disease patient is sent to the health management platform through the communication interface, so as to provide a basis for doctors to carry out rehabilitation treatment for patients with Parkinson's disease, thereby achieving the effect of assisting the rehabilitation of patients with Parkinson's disease.

Brief description of the drawing

DRAWINGS

1 is a schematic structural view of a preferred embodiment of a wearable device for assisting rehabilitation of a patient with Parkinson's disease according to the present invention;

2 is a circuit connection diagram of a preferred embodiment of a wearable device for assisting rehabilitation of a patient with Parkinson's disease.

[0022] OBJECTS OF THE INVENTION, PERFORMANCE FEATURES AND EMBODIMENT OF THE INVENTION The present invention will be further described with reference to the accompanying drawings.

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION

The specific embodiments, structures, features and functions of the present invention are described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings and preferred embodiments. It is understood that the specific embodiments described herein are merely illustrative of the invention and are not intended to limit the invention.

1 and FIG. 2, FIG. 1 is a schematic structural view of a preferred embodiment of a wearable device for assisting rehabilitation of a patient with Parkinson's disease; FIG. 2 is a view of the present invention for assisting patients with Parkinson's disease. A circuit connection schematic of a preferred embodiment of a rehabilitated wearable device.

[0025] In the embodiment, the wearable device comprises a flexible circuit board 1 , and the wristband 2 and the finger hook 3 are respectively connected at two ends of the flexible circuit board 1 . The flexible circuit board 1 is worn on the back of the patient's hand, the wristband 2 is worn on the wrist of the patient, the finger hook 3 is a J-shaped curved structure, and the curved section of the finger hook 3 is hooked on the patient The fingers are sewn inside. The structure of the wearable device of the present embodiment does not restrict the action of the patient, does not hinder the free movement of the patient, and avoids interfering with the normal life of the patient with Parkinson's disease. The wristband 2 is a retractable elastic wristband made of an elastic fabric to accommodate variations in the diameter of the wrist of different patients. The outer surface of the flexible circuit board 1 is covered with a casing made of a flexible waterproof material, which can prevent the device from entering water, prevent the flexible circuit board 1 from rubbing the skin of the back of the hand, and prevent the flexible circuit board 1 from being damaged by the collision of foreign objects.

In the embodiment, the flexible circuit board 1 is provided with an infrared detector 11, an infrared laser 12, a inertial sensor 13, a microcontroller 14, a communication interface 15, and a voice player 16. The infrared detector 11, the infrared laser 12, the inertial sensor 13, the communication interface 15 and the voice player 16 are all electrically connected to the microcontroller 14.

[0027] The infrared detector 11 is an existing sensor for detecting an object by emitting infrared rays for detecting the position of a target item around a patient of Parkinson's disease by emitting infrared rays. The target item is a household item that is often used in a patient's life, including but not limited to, tableware, teacups, clothes, shoes, socks, glasses, and the like.

[0028] The infrared laser 12 is a conventional micro-infrared laser generating device for emitting an infrared visual aperture and illuminating the position of the target object to visually stimulate the patient to discover the target object. Thereby assisting in improving the visual cognition of the target item in patients with Parkinson's disease.

[0029] The inertial sensor 13 may be a six-axis inertial sensor including a three-axis inertial sensor including a three-axis gyroscope and a three-axis acceleration sensor, and a three-axis inertial sensor including a three-axis gyroscope and three-axis Acceleration sensor and three-axis magnetic induction sensor. The inertial sensor 13 is used for collecting tremor data of the hand inertial motion of a patient with Parkinson's disease, including data such as tremor direction, tremor amplitude, and tremor frequency in three directions of the X-axis, the y-axis, and the z-axis, and the Parkinson's disease. The tremor data of the patient's hand is sent to the microcontroller 14.

[0030] The microcontroller 14 may be a micro control chip, a data processing chip or an information processing unit having a data processing function. The communication interface 15 is a communication port supporting a wireless transmission network such as Bluetooth or WiFi or a remote transmission network, and is used for transmitting the tremor data of the hand of the Parkinson's disease patient to the health management platform of the medical health center. Specifically, the microcontroller 14 transmits the tremor data of the hand of the Parkinson's disease patient to the health management platform of the medical health center through the communication interface 15 for the doctor to pay for Parkin Patients with Mori disease provide a basis for rehabilitation.

[0031] The voice player 16 uses a conventional pair of conventional voice recorders for playing the patient's rehabilitation training instructions, which is convenient for the upper limb rehabilitation training performed by the patient. The voice player 16 is also used to play the patient's medication time to remind the patient to take the medicine according to the medicine, thereby effectively preventing the patient from forgetting to take the medicine according to the medicine, and is beneficial to the rehabilitation of the Parkinson's disease patient.

[0032] The wristband 2 is provided with a pulse electrode 21, which is electrically connected to the microcontroller 14.

The pulse electrode 21 is attached to the muscle abdomen surface of the hand muscle, and the hand muscle may be a wrist extensor or a wrist flexor. In this embodiment, the pulse electrodes 21 may be one or more, which may be attached to the sacral nerve of the hand of a Parkinson's disease patient. The pulse electrode 21 is used to generate an electrical stimulation pulse under the microcontroller 14 to transmit the phrenic nerve to the patient's hand to suppress the patient's hand tremor, thereby reducing the influence of hand tremor on the inconvenience of upper limb movement, thereby increasing The initiative of upper limb activity in patients with Parkinson's disease, and thus the rehabilitation of patients with Parkinson's disease. Specifically, the pulse electrode 21 generates an electrical stimulation pulse that inhibits Parkinson's resting tremor and transmits it to the sacral nerve of the patient's hand, and inhibits the central tremor signal transmission by electrically stimulating the phrenic nerve to inhibit the activity of the spinal cord inner neuron. a pathway of motor neurons, thereby suppressing the tremor signal transmitted to the hand muscles, and ultimately inhibiting resting tremor in patients with Parkinson's disease.

[0033] There are two finger hooks 3, and the two finger hooks 3 are correspondingly worn in the two finger slits, so that the flexible circuit board 1 is more closely attached to the back of the patient's hand. In order to avoid affecting the hand flexibility of the patient, a connection belt 4 is disposed between the flexible circuit board 1 and the wristband 2, and the connection belt 4 is a flexible belt. The structure can flexibly connect the flexible circuit board 1 to the wristband 2. In order to minimize the impact of the flexible circuit board 1 on the patient's hand flexibility.

[0034] The flexible circuit board 1 is further provided with a micro battery 17 and a charging port 18 for providing working power for the wearable device, and the micro battery 17 is a low radiation, low power consumption. Rechargeable lithium battery or button battery, it will not affect the health of patients. The charging port 18 is electrically connected to the micro battery 17. The charging port 18 can be a USB interface or other standard battery charging interface. The charging port 18 can be directly inserted into an external power source (such as a computer USB interface or a low voltage regulator). The micro battery 17 is charged, for example.

[0035] In the wearable device for assisting rehabilitation of a Parkinson's disease patient according to the present invention, the wearable device is worn on the patient's hand due to its quality relative to the wearable and glove-like motion urging system. Light, easy to carry, and has the advantage of certain decorative features, so it does not make the wearer resist Psychological. The wearable device for assisting rehabilitation of patients with Parkinson's disease according to the present invention, through visual stimulation, guides patients with Parkinson's disease to find target items, thereby assisting patients with Parkinson's disease to visually recognize the target items; The pulse electrode generates an electrical stimulation pulse to the phrenic nerve of the patient's hand to inhibit resting tremor in the patient's hand, thereby reducing the impact of hand tremor on the inconvenience of upper limb movement, and increasing the initiative of upper limb activity in patients with Parkinson's disease; The tremor data of the hand of Parkinson's disease patient is sent to the health management platform through the communication interface, so as to provide a basis for the doctor to carry out rehabilitation treatment for patients with Parkinson's disease, thereby achieving the effect of assisting the rehabilitation of patients with Parkinson's disease.

[0036]

The above is only a preferred embodiment of the present invention, and thus does not limit the scope of the patent of the present invention, and the equivalent structure or equivalent function transformation made by the specification and the drawings of the present invention, or directly or indirectly In other related technical fields, the same is included in the scope of patent protection of the present invention.

Industrial applicability

Compared with the prior art, the wearable device for assisting rehabilitation of Parkinson's disease patients according to the present invention adopts the above technical solution, and achieves the following technical effects: guiding the patients with Parkinson's disease to discover the target through visual stimulation The article, thereby assisting the patient with Parkinson's disease to visually recognize the target item; generating an electrical stimulation pulse through the pulse electrode to the phrenic nerve of the patient's hand to suppress resting tremor of the patient's hand, thereby reducing the upper limb of the hand tremor The inconvenience of exercise can increase the initiative of upper limb activity in patients with Parkinson's disease. In addition, the tremor data of the hand of Parkinson's disease patients is sent to the health management platform through the communication interface, so as to provide a basis for doctors to carry out rehabilitation treatment for patients with Parkinson's disease, thereby achieving the effect of assisting the rehabilitation of patients with Parkinson's disease.

Claims

Claim

[Claim 1] A wearable device for assisting rehabilitation of a patient with Parkinson's disease, the wearable device comprising a flexible circuit board having wrist straps and finger hooks respectively connected at both ends thereof, wherein An infrared detector, an infrared laser, an inertial sensor, a communication interface, and a microcontroller are disposed on the flexible circuit board, and the infrared detector, the infrared laser, the inertial sensor, and the communication interface are electrically connected to the microcontroller. a pulse electrode is disposed on the wristband, the pulse electrode is electrically connected to the microcontroller, wherein: the infrared detector is used to detect a position of a target item around a patient with Parkinson's disease; the infrared laser is used to emit infrared The visual aperture is illuminated at the location of the target item; the pulse electrode is used to generate an electrical stimulation pulse transmitted to the phrenic nerve of the hand of the Parkinson's disease patient; the inertial sensor is used to sense the tremor data of the hand of the Parkinson's disease patient, And transmitting tremor data of the hand of the Parkinson's disease patient to the microcontroller; the microcontroller is used to The number of tremors in patients with Parkinson's hand, according to health management platform via the communication interface to send medical health center.

[Claim 2] The wearable device for assisting rehabilitation of a Parkinson's disease patient according to claim 1, wherein the wristband is a retractable elastic wristband for wearing on a wrist of a patient with Parkinson's disease on.

[Claim 3] The wearable device for assisting rehabilitation of a Parkinson's disease patient according to claim 1, wherein the finger hook is a J-shaped curved structure, and the curved portion of the finger hook is hooked at Patients with Parkinson's disease have their fingers sewed inside.

[Claim 4] The wearable device for assisting rehabilitation of a Parkinson's disease patient according to claim 1, wherein the outer portion of the flexible circuit board is covered with a casing made of a flexible waterproof material.

[Claim 5] The wearable device for assisting rehabilitation of a Parkinson's disease patient according to claim 1, wherein a connecting belt is disposed between the flexible circuit board and the wristband, and the connecting belt is a flexible belt .

[Claim 6] The wearable device for assisting rehabilitation of a Parkinson's disease patient according to any one of claims 1 to 5, wherein the flexible circuit board is provided with a connection to the microcontroller The voice player is used to play rehabilitation training instructions for patients with Parkinson's disease and to take medication.

[Attachment 7] The wearable device for assisting rehabilitation of a Parkinson's disease patient according to claim 1, wherein the inertial sensor is a six-axis inertial sensor including a three-axis gyroscope and Three-axis acceleration sensor.

[Claim 8] The wearable device for assisting rehabilitation of a Parkinson's disease patient according to claim 1, wherein the inertial sensor is a nine-axis inertial sensor including a three-axis gyroscope, three Axis acceleration sensor and three-axis magnetic induction sensor.

[Claim 9] The wearable device for assisting rehabilitation of a patient with Parkinson's disease according to claim 1, wherein the flexible circuit board is further provided with a micro battery, and the micro battery is used for the The wearable device provides working power.

[Claim 10] The wearable device for assisting rehabilitation of a Parkinson's disease patient according to claim 9, wherein the flexible circuit board is further provided with a charging port electrically connected to the micro On the battery, it is used to connect an external power source to charge the micro battery.