Mobility-Aid Smart Pants with Embedded Harness for Daily Use
Mobility aids help individuals that experience problems with moving around maintain autonomy, and can take many forms such as canes, crutches, walkers, among others. These devices are commonly used among the elderly, as decreased mobility is a natural effect of aging. In fact, mobility aids and gait...
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2022
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| author | Chen, Karen |
| author2 | Asada, H. Harry |
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| description | Mobility aids help individuals that experience problems with moving around maintain autonomy, and can take many forms such as canes, crutches, walkers, among others. These devices are commonly used among the elderly, as decreased mobility is a natural effect of aging. In fact, mobility aids and gait training, often facilitated through the use of bulky gait trainers, harnesses, and or railings, have great potential to improve patient’s cardiovascular health, blood circulation, and disease prevention. However, gait training is often inaccessible due to the heavy equipment required, impractical to purchase for individual use; giving patients more optionality in their mobility aids through everyday wearables could improve the overall health of the mobility-aid user population. In particular, smart garments can adapt to the user and the user’s environment. These harness-embedded pants come into play as the pants are physically connected to the walker, so the harness effectively prevents the user from sustaining a potentially life threatening injury, while discreetly disguised as a regular pair of pants. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1445512022-08-30T04:10:02Z Mobility-Aid Smart Pants with Embedded Harness for Daily Use Chen, Karen Asada, H. Harry Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mechanical Engineering Mobility aids help individuals that experience problems with moving around maintain autonomy, and can take many forms such as canes, crutches, walkers, among others. These devices are commonly used among the elderly, as decreased mobility is a natural effect of aging. In fact, mobility aids and gait training, often facilitated through the use of bulky gait trainers, harnesses, and or railings, have great potential to improve patient’s cardiovascular health, blood circulation, and disease prevention. However, gait training is often inaccessible due to the heavy equipment required, impractical to purchase for individual use; giving patients more optionality in their mobility aids through everyday wearables could improve the overall health of the mobility-aid user population. In particular, smart garments can adapt to the user and the user’s environment. These harness-embedded pants come into play as the pants are physically connected to the walker, so the harness effectively prevents the user from sustaining a potentially life threatening injury, while discreetly disguised as a regular pair of pants. S.B. 2022-08-29T15:55:17Z 2022-08-29T15:55:17Z 2022-05 2022-06-14T19:35:19.810Z Thesis https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/144551 In Copyright - Educational Use Permitted Copyright MIT http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC-EDU/1.0/ application/pdf Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
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