{"id":20512,"date":"2022-08-12T07:00:03","date_gmt":"2022-08-12T01:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.globalindian.com\/youth\/\/?post_type=story&p=20512"},"modified":"2022-08-06T14:51:21","modified_gmt":"2022-08-06T09:21:21","slug":"jui-keskar-bringing-relief-to-parkinsons-patients-with-a-wearable-device-that-tracks-tremors","status":"publish","type":"story","link":"https:\/\/old.globalindian.com\/youth\/story\/global-indian-youth\/jui-keskar-bringing-relief-to-parkinsons-patients-with-a-wearable-device-that-tracks-tremors\/","title":{"rendered":"Jui Keskar: Bringing relief to Parkinson’s patients with a wearable device that tracks tremors"},"content":{"rendered":"

(August 12, 2022)<\/strong> India is home to 0.58 million persons living with Parkinson’s disease, and Pune-based inventor Jui Keskar’s abode was no different. Having seen her uncle battle the illness for the past nine years with incessant rounds to the hospitals, she was keen to help him. But how was the question that kept gnawing at her? However, the lockdown in 2020 turned out to be a blessing in disguise for the teenager as it gave her the time to dive into research and find a potential solution to helping her uncle. While scrolling through heaps of data on the internet, the innovator realised that the medication depended on the tremor history, and there was no device to measure them.<\/p>\n

That was a turning point for this Global Indian<\/em><\/a> as she decided to develop a wearable device to measure tremors and analyse data to chalk out a customised medication for the treatment.<\/p>\n

“The disease causes involuntary tremors, and my 42-year-old uncle could not control them. I’ve seen him in this state for almost nine years. I observed that doctors administered or prescribed medication based on the frequency of the occurrence of these tremors, but there was no device to measure them,” the Pradhan Mantri Rashtriya Bal Puraskar 2022 recipient told Better India.<\/p>\n

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