Development of a smart garment to reduce kyphosis during daily living.

摘要: Many of the aches and pains adults are result long-term effects bad posture or body misalignment. Postural kyphosis in adolescence, which is an excessive rounding upper spine, may be one poor standing sitting habits. A smart garment, consisting a harness two data-sensor loggers, was developed to monitor provide vibration feedback wearers improve their during daily activities. Laboratory tests verified that garment could accuracy 2 ± 2° static measurement 3 ± 2° stable slowly changing activities 4 ± 4° rapidly Four volunteers wore system for 3 h per day 4 consecutive days. The provided on last 2 days kyphotic angle reduced by 8 ± 1° 8 ± 2° 2 days, respectively. Although reminding subjects’ still not clear, short-term shows promise able kyphosis.