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ArmTracker project: A state-of-the-art wearable system to assess upper limb motor function in real-life conditions for patients with DMD and SMA

Conference Article

Conference

Congreso Internacional Duchenne Parent Project España (DPPE)

Edition

2022

Pages

1

Doc link

https://www.duchenne-spain.org/blog/congreso-internacional-duchenne-parent-project-espana-13-14-15-mayo-2022/

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Abstract

Recent advances in gene therapy are opening a new era for children with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD) and Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA). However, in spite of this impressive progress, the motor functional scales traditionally used are not fully adequate to evaluate the efficacy of these new treatments as they are performed in an artificial environment, in an intermittent way and tend to be influenced by external factors.



There is a need for a new wearable system adapted to patients with DMD and SMA to continuously monitor their upper limb activity in real-life conditions, sensitive enough to detect small changes on the motor function that traditional methods fail to detect.



The ArmTracker is expected to offer relevant and pertinent clinical variables to assess non-ambulant DMD and SMA patients, enabling clinicians to better monitor the disease progression and treatment efficacy in a continuous way. The ultimate goal is to define a relevant biomarker that could be used to guide therapy decisions in this new context of personalised medicine and as clinical endpoint in clinical trials.

Categories

medical robotics, pattern recognition.

Author keywords

Duchenne muscular distrophy, Spinal muscular atrophy, IMU, kinematics, digital biomarker

Scientific reference

A. Favata, R. Gallart, J. Exposito, M. Martínez, R. Pàmies-Vilà, J.M. Font, C. Torras and D. Natera-de Benito. ArmTracker project: A state-of-the-art wearable system to assess upper limb motor function in real-life conditions for patients with DMD and SMA, 2022 Congreso Internacional Duchenne Parent Project España, 2022, Madrid, pp. 1.