Compression Textiles for Medical, Sports, and Allied Applications

ISBN-13: 9781032287904 / Angielski

Nimesh Kankariya; Ren? Rossi

Opis

Textile-based compression therapy is used in range of applications, such as for athlete and sport recovery, enhanced proprioception, compression spacesuits, and in management of chronic disease. Compression Textiles for Medical, Sports, and Allied Applications provides an overview of compression devices and products, testing methods to measure properties of materials used in compression devices, and design considerations based on dynamic body measurements. It also includes a model for predicting pressure and details challenges in applying compression for various applications.

• Discusses the science behind compression therapy

• Delves into the materials used in compression devices and products and assesses their performance based on properties and structure

• Covers theoretical modeling to predict the pressure exerted by compression devices on the human body

• Considers compression textile design based on dynamic body measurements

This book is aimed at professionals and researchers in textile engineering, materials engineering, phlebology, biotechnology, and development of textile-based compression devices and products.

Spis treści

Chapter 1 Overview of Compression Therapy

Nimesh Kankariya

Chapter 2 Materials and Structure of Compression Bandages and Stocking Devices

Rabisankar Chattopadhyay

Chapter 3 Mechanical Properties of Compression Garments

Wan Syazehan Ruznan, Mohd Khairi Mohd Yusoh, Fazieyana Mohd Tohid, and Nur Ain Yusof

Chapter 4 A Model for Compression Textile Design Based on Dynamic

Female Lower Body Measurements

Linsey Griffin, Alison Cloet, and Elizabeth Bye

Chapter 5 Compression Clothing and Body Deformations Through High-speed 4D Scanning

Tatjana Spahiu and Yordan Kyosev

Chapter 6 Materials and Design of Pneumatic Compression Devices

Nimesh Kankariya

Chapter 7 Thermal Comfort of Compression Textiles

René M. Rossi

Chapter 8 Models and Simulations to Predict the Pressure on the Lower Limb Generated by Compression Devices

Nimesh Kankariya

Chapter 9 Pressure Sensors to Measure Interface-Pressure

Martin Camenzind, Rolf Stämpfli, René M. Rossi

Chapter 10 Applications in Medical, Sports, and Athletes

Yongrong Wang

Chapter 11 Efficacy of Compression Garments in Medical and Sports Applications

Kristina Brubacher

Chapter 12 Applications of Textile-Based Compression for Human Spaceflight and Extraterrestrial Surface Exploration

Braid A. MacRae, Jonathan Clarke, Abby Rudakov, James Waldie

O autorze

Nimesh Kankariya serves as Director for Textiles and Materials Research Limited, New Zealand (TexMat Research). Much of his recent research focuses on smart textiles, including compression textiles and emerging technologies. He has been involved in several industrial-based research projects. Nimesh’s doctoral thesis “Textiles and Compression of the Lower Limb” is on the Sciences Divisional list of Exceptional Doctoral Theses, University of Otago, New Zealand.

René M. Rossi has worked at Empa, the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, for more than 25 years in the field of the interactions between materials and the human skin. He studied physics and obtained his PhD at ETH Zurich, Switzerland. Since 2003, Prof. Rossi has been leading the Laboratory for Biomimetic Membranes and Textiles at Empa, a group of around 40 researchers developing novel smart fibers, textiles, and membranes for body monitoring, drug delivery, and tissue engineering applications. He is Adjunct Professor at the Department of Health Sciences and Technology at ETH Zurich and Invited Professor at the University of Haute-Alsace in Mulhouse, France.