Measurement of SCI Patient's buttock pressure on wheelchair and bed

Proceedings of the International Workshop on Intelligent Data Acquisition and Advanced Computing Systems: Technology and Applications, IDAACS 2001

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 44-48

  Tanimoto, Yoshio ^a   Tokuhiro, Akihiro ^a   Takechi, Hideo ^a   Takechi, Hirosuke ^b   Yamamoto, Hideki ^c  

^a Japan Labour Health and Welfare Organization   (Japan)

^b OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^c OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Pressure distribution; Pressure measurement; Pressure sore; Spinal cord injury; Wheelchair cushion

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; PATIENT REHABILITATION; PRESSURE DISTRIBUTION; PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; WHEELCHAIRS;

AIR MATTRESS; BUTTOCK PRESSURE; EVALUATING SYSTEMS; PRESSURE MEASUREMENT SYSTEM; PRESSURE SORES; SPINAL CORD INJURIES (SCI); WHEELCHAIR CUSHIONS;

PRESSURE EFFECTS;

EID: 29244466786     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IDAACS.2001.941976     Document Type: Conference Paper

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