If you have done serious tremor research, you have undoubtedly encountered the problems caused by the lack of standardized equipment and tests for accurately and objectively quantifying human tremor. Many tremor research papers begin with a detailed description of the equipment used -- because every system is custom -- and results from one researcher are difficult to compare with those from another. The Tremorometer® seeks to create a standard way to measure tremor by providing tremor measurement and quantification that is accurate, easy to use and affordable.

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Blood pressure and temperature readings have a commonly understood meaning -- why not have a standard measure for tremor? By helping to develop standard methods and equipment for quantifying tremor, you will improve the understanding of tremor as more people can use the same standards. By using the same equipment and processing techniques that other researchers are using, your results can be directly shared and understood. The Tremorometer has been designed to be a system upon which tremor standards may be developed. 

FlexAble Systems, Inc. completed a two-year NIMH-funded multi-site study that evaluated the validity and sensitivity of the Tremorometer. Patients with a variety of tremors including idiopathic Parkinson’s disease, neuroleptic-induced Parkinsonian tremor, lithium-induced tremor, essential tremor, tremors related to substance abuse, and tremors of unknown etiology were tested. Important demographic diagnostic, pharmacological and historical data were obtained from each participant. Data from over 300 patients plus additional healthy comparison subjects were pooled into a single database for analysis. Work is ongoing to develop a meaningful TremScore™ from this data and additional data being collected. We actively encourage other researchers to participate in this work with the goal of creating a tremor standard that will accelerate the understanding of tremor.