Development of Motor-assisted Therapy Bike for Patients with Parkinson’s Disease

In this paper, Theracycle – a rehabilitation exercise bicycle company that specializes in motor-assisted ergometers designed for users with Parkinson’s Disease – aims to increase the functionality of one of their current bicycle designs for their patients. The updated motor-assisted exercise bicycle has increased functionality with advanced safety features, an implemented heart rate detection system, a new touchscreen user interface, and various cycle modes. Since the core functionality of the Theracycle 200 is a motor assisted bicycle, an additional mode was added that includes a resistive training version in order to increase versatility. The integrated touchscreen tablet displays and records live data during the bicycle usage such as their heart rate data, pedaling rate, time duration, speed, and resistance. The updated exercise bicycle continues to function as a rehabilitation device for the users and additionally collects necessary data to observe their improvement which can be further used by clinicians to track user’s progress.