Katherin Zumaeta has been accepted to partipate in the Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference Management System

Repetitive finger tapping (FT) movements are sensitive to detect bradykinesia in Parkinson Disease. In this sense, this pilot study presents a comparative analysis between inertial sensors (accelerometer and gyroscope) and optical flow to assess sequences of 10 repetitive finger-tapping movements performed at a cued frequency of 1 Hz in 7 healthy volunteers. Results from the statistical analysis (Spearman-Rank test and coefficient of variation) showed that these methods are feasible for the objective evaluation of bradykinesia as part of telehealth applications.