Development of a pressure measuring garment to understand how to quantify compression

Michael Weber; Abigail Clarke-Sather; Tara Bergeron; Anisa Janko; Alicia Jensen; Brittany Malvick; Steven Cope

doi:10.1115/DMD2020-9024

Development of a pressure measuring garment to understand how to quantify compression

Michael Weber, Abigail Clarke-Sather, Tara Bergeron, Anisa Janko, Alicia Jensen, Brittany Malvick, Steven Cope

Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

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Abstract

Encouraging research shows reductions in the number of disruptive behaviors for children diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) when wearing compression shirts. However, current studies do not consider the amount of pressure compression shirts apply to the body and how different amounts of pressure applied to the body may lead to different outcomes for children diagnosed with ASD. The purpose of this proof of concept research project was to develop a method for measuring the pressure applied by a compression shirt at a specific location on the body. This study used conductive thread as the principle element to measure the compression applied by a garment onto the body, specifically the arm. It was found that for the specific stitch and thread tested, the relationship between the displacement the sensor exhibits and the change in resistance was 25.95 Ω/m. With this relation, the pressure applied by a compression garment to a mannequin arm and the arms of four participants was found. A general trend that the measured pressure applied by a garment onto the body directly correlated with increasing individual arm circumference was found.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Frontiers in Biomedical Devices, BIOMED - 2020 Design of Medical Devices Conference, DMD 2020
Publisher	American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
ISBN (Electronic)	9780791883549
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1115/DMD2020-9024
State	Published - 2020
Event	2020 Design of Medical Devices Conference, DMD 2020 - Minneapolis, United States Duration: Apr 6 2020 → Apr 9 2020

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Name	Frontiers in Biomedical Devices, BIOMED - 2020 Design of Medical Devices Conference, DMD 2020

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Conference	2020 Design of Medical Devices Conference, DMD 2020
Country/Territory	United States
City	Minneapolis
Period	4/6/20 → 4/9/20

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Copyright © 2020 ASME

Keywords

Compression garment
Compression measurement
Conductive thread
Pressure sensor
Stitch sensor

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Weber, M., Clarke-Sather, A., Bergeron, T., Janko, A., Jensen, A., Malvick, B., & Cope, S. (2020). Development of a pressure measuring garment to understand how to quantify compression. In Frontiers in Biomedical Devices, BIOMED - 2020 Design of Medical Devices Conference, DMD 2020 (Frontiers in Biomedical Devices, BIOMED - 2020 Design of Medical Devices Conference, DMD 2020). American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). https://doi.org/10.1115/DMD2020-9024

Development of a pressure measuring garment to understand how to quantify compression. / Weber, Michael; Clarke-Sather, Abigail; Bergeron, Tara et al.
Frontiers in Biomedical Devices, BIOMED - 2020 Design of Medical Devices Conference, DMD 2020. American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020. (Frontiers in Biomedical Devices, BIOMED - 2020 Design of Medical Devices Conference, DMD 2020).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Weber, M, Clarke-Sather, A, Bergeron, T, Janko, A, Jensen, A, Malvick, B & Cope, S 2020, Development of a pressure measuring garment to understand how to quantify compression. in Frontiers in Biomedical Devices, BIOMED - 2020 Design of Medical Devices Conference, DMD 2020. Frontiers in Biomedical Devices, BIOMED - 2020 Design of Medical Devices Conference, DMD 2020, American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020 Design of Medical Devices Conference, DMD 2020, Minneapolis, United States, 4/6/20. https://doi.org/10.1115/DMD2020-9024

Weber M, Clarke-Sather A, Bergeron T, Janko A, Jensen A, Malvick B et al. Development of a pressure measuring garment to understand how to quantify compression. In Frontiers in Biomedical Devices, BIOMED - 2020 Design of Medical Devices Conference, DMD 2020. American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). 2020. (Frontiers in Biomedical Devices, BIOMED - 2020 Design of Medical Devices Conference, DMD 2020). doi: 10.1115/DMD2020-9024

Weber, Michael ; Clarke-Sather, Abigail ; Bergeron, Tara et al. / Development of a pressure measuring garment to understand how to quantify compression. Frontiers in Biomedical Devices, BIOMED - 2020 Design of Medical Devices Conference, DMD 2020. American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020. (Frontiers in Biomedical Devices, BIOMED - 2020 Design of Medical Devices Conference, DMD 2020).

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