PARKIBIP Feedback Wearable Rehabilitation Device: Market Analysis and Enhancements

Abstract

Rehabilitation counteracts motor deficiencies in gait disorder of Parkinson's Disease (PD) patients. PARKIBIP is a wearable feedback device that aims to offer a continuous and personalized rehabilitation tool for such people. A survey and external study of PARKIBIP suggest design enhancements. Exploration of its industrial potential shows direct competitors, a first step to conclude that PARKIBIP is suitable for Technological Transfer to a company for commercial dissemination. PARKIBIP is both a home treatment helping device and a clinical data & feedback capture terminal for the electronic medical record. Being wearable technology, PARKIBIP stands out in the present global context as an affordable robotic element with feedback capability connected to the patient's mobile phone.