Study of the Efficiency of Electronic Postural Corrector in the Treatment and Prevention of Thoracic Hyperkyphosis in Children and Teenagers

Author

Segato Dos Santos, Luiz Fernando ; Faccio Segato, Tiago Henrique ; Monteiro Ferro, Alessandra ; Quintino Cabreira, Leonardo Gabriel ; Roschidt Pinto, Alex

Author_Institution

Univ. do Estado de Sao Paulo - UNESP, São José do Rio Preto, Brazil

fYear

2014

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

In order to reduce postural problems in children and teenagers it was created an electronic postural corrector by the arguing technology that detects when the user is in an incorrect posture and warns him/her to behave properly. To ensure the efficiency of the device, this apparatus was tested on people with the problem of thoracic hyperkyphosis with the intuited to verify its efficiency regarding the treatment of this disease and on people who do not have the problem to verify its preventive efficiency. The test results prove the effectiveness of this equipment.

Keywords

biomedical electronics; biomedical equipment; diseases; paediatrics; patient treatment; arduino technology; children; disease treatment; electronic postural corrector; postural problems; teenagers; thoracic hyperkyphosis prevention; thoracic hyperkyphosis treatment; Batteries; Microcontrollers; Prototypes; Regulators; Testing; Vibrations; Voltage control; arduino; electronic postural corrector; prevention; thoracic hyperkyphosis; treatment;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computing Systems Engineering (SBESC), 2014 Brazilian Symposium on

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SBESC.2014.23

Filename

7091157