PD-Trends is an intuitive app designed to help people with Parkinson’s (PwPD), their caregivers, and clinicians track and understand symptom patterns. It combines tremor and movement data from your smartwatch with a simple diary where you log changes in medication, diet, exercise, sleep, stress, and other events. By correlating these factors, PD-Trends provides a clearer picture of how daily habits and interventions affect your symptoms.
Using the MM4PD API (Powers et al., 2021) and data from the Health app, the app generates detailed graphs on your smartphone with resolutions ranging from 10 minutes to weeks. Currently, data can be exported to a secure cloud location for deeper analysis on a computer.
Key Features:
- Symptom Tracking: Visualize tremor and movement levels over time, from minutes to years. See progression, daily or weekly patterns, and the effects of interventions.
- Daily Diary: Color-coded tremor and movement levels (green = mild, red = strong) alongside notes about medication, diet, exercise, stress, and sleep.
- Comparative Analysis: Compare two time periods to see how symptom patterns change with new treatments, lifestyle adjustments, or events.
- Long-Term Trends: Track and understand fluctuations in your symptoms over weeks, months, or years. Focus on specific symptoms that best reflect how you feel or how your medication works.
- Graphic Overlays: Visualize the impact of medication, exercise, diet, supplements, stress, holidays, steps, and sleep on symptom patterns.
- Data Access & Sharing: Download your full dataset and share automated analysis reports with yourself, your clinician, or your social network.
The next version of PD-Trends will:
- Display interactive graphic overlays directly on your phone for immediate visual insight.
- Automatically generate sharable summary reports with charts and AI-assisted evaluation.
- Expand compatibility to Android devices, making the app accessible to more users.
PD-Trends empowers you to take control of your Parkinson’s journey, providing actionable insights to improve daily life and support informed discussions with your healthcare team.
