Verification of MOVXAM software to analyze and digitize human hand and foot fine movement from video recording files with comparison of normal subject and Parkinson patient’s movement performance. 

Human finger and foot movement evaluation is currently using the scoring system which has concerns of inter-rater variability and reliability. We  verify a developed software-MOVXAM that is able to quantitatively analyze and digitize human hand and foot movement from video recording files. 

 Using single camera video records designed modules of finger tapping, hand flapping and foot tapping ( modules) . The video files are presented with 2-D vertical and horizontal waveform. Waveform of movement is analyzed with percentage variance of amplitude and duration of the waveform. The percentage variance is also evaluated with a scoring matrices system of Motor Intelligence Quotient ( MIQ) .

Parkinson’s group has significant more percentage variance of amplitude, duration, MIQ scoring and bilateral performance difference of vertical waveform

than the normal subject group with studied modules.  

Conclusion: The MOVXAM system is a good and simple digital method to analyze normal subject and Parkinson’s patient’s movement pattern, MIQ metrics provide  overall movement performance result of hand and foot.  The capability of software provides bilateral comparison of designed movement pattern performance that gives more information of stage of Parkinson disease . It is a additional tool of UPDRS for clinician and researchers. More sample size may provide more information of Parkinson’ s movement pattern.

Key word: Digital movement analyses , Parkinson, finger tapping, foot taping , video recording.