Conduct Neurologic Assessments at Home

Screen shot of app used in clinical trials for MS

Our app replicates neurologic testing that neurologists and MS clinics administer in their offices. In-office neurological assessments are time-consuming, time-sensitive, and most often, require a considerable wait time to schedule an appointment with a qualified specialist to conduct the examination.

BeCare MS Link offers an alternative: remote, ongoing monitoring of your MS condition. With our mobile app, you can conduct assessments at home.

Here’s how BeCare MS Link works:

  1. Download the app from one of  the app store. (Go to Google Play or the App Store.)
  2. Register and fill out a questionnaire about your health history. The history covers your MS History, Neurologic Symptoms, MS Treatments, Relapses, and Other Medical Treatment.
  3. Answer questions about your Quality of Life, Happiness, and Mental Health over the past 2 weeks.
  4. Play the game-like activities on your mobile phone.

Learn How to Use BeCare MS Link

Watch the demos of each of the activities below.  Collectively, by engaging in these activities on your mobile phone, highly precise, quantifiable data about your MS status is generated.

Code helps with monitoring MS by testing your information processing speed

Memory helps with monitoring MS by testing your immediate recall

Path helps with monitoring MS by measuring cerebellar function

Speech helps with monitoring MS by evaluating your speech output
Stroop helps with monitoring MS by testing your ability to process information
Tap helps with monitoring MS by testing fine motor skills
Transcription helps with monitoring MS by testing how fast you can type
The vibration activity helps with monitoring MS by measuring your sensory capabilities
The Visual contrast activity helps you with monitoring MS by measuring the ability to process visual information
6 minute walk helps with monitoring MS by measure the distance you can walk in 6 minutes
The 25 foot walk helps with monitoring MS by measuring how long it takes you to walk 25 feet
Arm elevation helps with monitoring MS by elevating your motor skills when you move your arm up and down
TUG helps with monitoring MS

Decode a message using a decoding key. Numbers 1 to 9 are paired with a series of symbols. Tap the symbol in the key that matches the number at the top of the screen.  Repeat 3 times.

Measures: 

Motor speed, information processing speed

Similar In-Office Clinical Test:

Finger tapping

You are presented with two animals. After a few seconds, one of the animals disappears, and you are shown a few animals and asked to choose the image that disappeared.

Measures:

Short term memory, cognition

Similar In-Office Clinical Test:

Recall at end of exam of three words provided and spoken early in the exam.

Drag the tiger along a curvy path to the finish line. Repeat the activity 3 times with each hand using your index finger.

Measures:

Cerebellar function

Similar In-Office Test:

Finger to nose

Virtual assistant Tina asks you to repeat different words and sounds and to describe different pictures that you see. There are two options, “Expanded version” for the first time you perform the activity and once a year; and Brief version for all other time you use the app.

Measures:

Assessment of speech output – speed and clarity

Similar In-Office Clinical Test:

Subjective Physician assessment of speech output

You will see a series of 10 words in written in different colors. Tap on the ribbon that matches the color of the text, not the color that you read. Use the index finger of your dominant hand.

Measures:

Cognition, information processing speed

Similar In-Office Clinical Test:

Stroop Neuropsychological Screening Test

Collect coins that appear on different places on the screen by tapping the coins as quickly as possible. This will be repeated three times with each hand.

Measures:

Fine motor skills

Similar In-Office Clinical Test:

Finger tapping

You will see and hear a short phrase, and then you type the phrase using a special keyboard. Use your dominant index finger to perform this activity

Measures:

Cognition, language, fine motor skills

Similar In-Office Clinical Test:

Typing out audio phrases

The device oscillator produces different vibrations patterns. You hold your phone in one hand and use your index finger on the other hand to press the button “Vibration Change” when you detect a change. 

Measures:

Sensory

Similar In-Office Clinical Test:

Vibration Sense Test using a tuning fork

There are two tests for this activity. First, you are asked to compare two patterns or textures and indicate if the two images are the same. The second test presents numbers inside a colorful textured pattern. You need to identify the embedded number to assess your color vision.

Measures:

Ability to receive, transmit, and process visual information

Similar In-Office Clinical Test:

Pattern recognition/ Ishihara Test