Abstract
Compression therapy is a simple physical approach to effectively increase blood flow activity of a target part of human body by strengthening vein support. However, there is few research study clearly elucidate a dynamic relationship between the excepted setting pressure and the received pressure while taking human factors account. This paper aims to adopt optical fiber pressure sensor in a pneumatic compression therapy device to detect the dynamic pressure applied on target tissues and to explore the relationship with pneumatic output. The preliminary results verify the feasibility of the research and provide theoretical basis for further work. This real time monitoring system would greatly improve the development of the compression treatment and highly support the personalized home care for health management and functional maintenance to improve the life quality of the relevant patients.
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The authors would like to express thankfulness to the support by Chi Chiu Chan’s Optical Fiber Sensor Group of Sino-German College of Intelligent Manufacturing, Shenzhen Technology University.
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Xiang, Z. et al. (2020). Wearable Real-Time Monitoring System Based on Fiber Bragg Grating Pressure Sensor for Compression Therapy Applications. In: Ahram, T., Falcão, C. (eds) Advances in Usability, User Experience, Wearable and Assistive Technology. AHFE 2020. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1217. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-51828-8_72
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