Abstract: The most common movement disorder, tremors, prevents patients from going about their daily lives and engaging in physical activities, ultimately lowering their quality of life. The pathophysiology of tremors makes it challenging to create potent pharmaceutical treatments, which are only marginally effective in controlling tremors. The management of this advancing, age-related disorder thus requires a variety of therapies. The control of tremors can be maintained with surgical procedures like deep brain stimulation. But because of high costs, patient and doctor preferences, and deemed high risks, their use is only minimally utilized. Medical devices are uniquely positioned to fill the gap between surgical procedures, pharmacotherapies, and lifestyle interventions to provide tremor suppression that is both secure and efficient. To solve this problem, we propose the wearable Anti-Tremor Band, which will solve the patient's daily life purpose. Wearable anti-tremor bands work by internally generating forces that cancel out or lessen the force of the tremor the user experiences. The wrist-worn device targets the radial and median nerves. We have used an inbuilt accelerometer sensor to detect the motion or handshaking and activate the motor to work accordingly. The device uses embedded machine learning to identify the patient's tremor condition. When the patient wears the anti-tremor band, the machine learning model will analyze the data, and if the patient's condition is good or bad, it will send information to his/her family member or doctor.
Description:FIG.1 demonstrates a complete idea of the proposed anti-tremor band. To start the device, we used the switch. The Nano 33 BLE has a 9-axis Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU), which includes an accelerometer, gyroscope, and magnetometer with 3-axis resolution each. The input voltage is 3.7 volt which is used to start the motor.
After wearing the band, the built-in accelerometer can sense the hand's motion and then start rotating the vibration motor to stabilize the handshaking. When the inbuilt accelerometer sensor detects the motion of the hand through radial and median nerve, machine learning algorithms can analyze the data and predict whether the tremor is in the primary, intermediate, or crucial stage. Then, the patient can level up or level down the intensity of that vibration motor accordingly through a mobile phone. The vibration works on the radial and median nerve to stabilize the tremor. After predicting the stage, the data is sent to the mobile phone, and the patient can quickly control the intensity of the vibration. The inbuilt Bluetooth in Arduino nano board helps the data transmission between the phone and the anti-tremor band. , Claims:We Claim:
1. This device claims a technique for reducing tremors in a patient entails positioning a median effector in one location concerning a median nerve and radial nerve in another; administering the first stimulus to the median nerve through the median effector and the radial nerve through the radial effector, and reducing the tremor amplitude by altering the stage of patient's neural network.
2. This device claims that the mechanism of machine learning helps to detect the stage of the tremor. The dataset of different types of tremor patients has been trained to the model, and according to the hand motion, the model trains to detect the level of tremor.
| # | Name | Date |
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| 1 | 202331034179-REQUEST FOR EXAMINATION (FORM-18) [16-05-2023(online)].pdf | 2023-05-16 |
| 2 | 202331034179-FORM 18 [16-05-2023(online)].pdf | 2023-05-16 |
| 3 | 202331034179-FORM 1 [16-05-2023(online)].pdf | 2023-05-16 |
| 4 | 202331034179-DRAWINGS [16-05-2023(online)].pdf | 2023-05-16 |
| 5 | 202331034179-COMPLETE SPECIFICATION [16-05-2023(online)].pdf | 2023-05-16 |