{"title":"A low cost Functional Electrical Stimulation (FES) system for essential tremor suppression using off the shelf components","authors":"Awais Shafique, Hooriya Anam, M. Javed","doi":"10.1109/WCST.2015.7415131","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Essential tremor (ET) is one of the most common movement disorders that causes a rhythmic trembling of the hands, head, voice, legs or trunk. Currently, no medication is specifically designed to treat ET, However, some solutions exist to temporarily suppress tremor. This paper presents a novel low cost alternative to the existing solutions, known as Functional Electrical Stimulation (FES) and its comparison with existing solutions. The paper focuses on the development of a low cost FES circuit with Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) feedback using off the shelf components which sends out-of-phase electrical pulses to suppress tremor.","PeriodicalId":259036,"journal":{"name":"2015 World Congress on Sustainable Technologies (WCST)","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2015-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"2015 World Congress on Sustainable Technologies (WCST)","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WCST.2015.7415131","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Essential tremor (ET) is one of the most common movement disorders that causes a rhythmic trembling of the hands, head, voice, legs or trunk. Currently, no medication is specifically designed to treat ET, However, some solutions exist to temporarily suppress tremor. This paper presents a novel low cost alternative to the existing solutions, known as Functional Electrical Stimulation (FES) and its comparison with existing solutions. The paper focuses on the development of a low cost FES circuit with Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) feedback using off the shelf components which sends out-of-phase electrical pulses to suppress tremor.