An indirect testing approach for characterizing pressure profiles of compression bandages and hosiery |
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| Authors: | Cassandra Kwon Meghan Hegarty William Oxenham Edward Grant Lawrence Reid |
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| Affiliation: | 1. College of Textiles, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA;2. Center for Robotics and Intelligent Machines (CRIM), Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA;3. Carolon Company, Rural Hall, NC, USA |
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| Abstract: | As outlined in compression therapy literature, the performance of a compression textile can be characterized by its stiffness and interface pressure. In this study, an indirect approach for measuring pressure from a set of compression bandages and hosiery was developed, from which rigidity (EI) values were determined, and tension–elongation curves and pressure-elongation data were calculated. The calculated pressure values were compared against PicoPress sensor readings measured on 10 participants. Results showed that the correlation between both approaches varied among bandage and hosiery samples. |
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| Keywords: | Compression medical textiles compression garments interface pressure tensile properties body measurement |
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