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Adolescent idiopathic scoliosis is the deformity of the human spine in three-dimensional space. It is a disease with a long course and difficult to recover in a short time. Currently, spinal orthotic braces are an effective non-surgical treatment for this condition. However, existing spinal orthotic braces are still deficient. For example, existing spinal orthotics braces have no way of knowing how correct, effective, and comfortable a patient is wearing the orthotics. Based on distributed pressure monitoring technology, this paper conducts pressure acquisition and compensation research on spinal orthotics used by adolescent patients. After analyzing the principles of orthopedics and selecting monitoring points, this paper selects appropriate sensors and calibrates them. An intelligent wearable system for adolescent spinal orthotics was developed based on these findings. The experimental results show that the system can effectively monitor the process of patients wearing spinal orthotic braces. In addition, the system can compensate and visualize the pressure in real-time, so that doctors and patients can know the process and make judgments and adjustments.
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Thanks to the China Disabled Persons’ Federation Special Project on Assistive Devices for Persons with Disabilities (2023CDPFAT-19) for providing support to this project.
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This research is supported by the Natural Science Foundation of Liaoning Province (2021-YGJC-10). It is also supported by the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation, 2021M692452. This work is supported by the Intelligent Medical Engineering Technology Research Center of Jianghan University.
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Xuan, L., Lei, L., Shao, M. et al. Design and development of an intelligent wearing system for adolescent spinal orthotics. Med Biol Eng Comput 62, 2653–2667 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11517-024-03082-3
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