The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Yiu-Wan Joanne Yip

Kit Lun Yick

Tsz Hei Cheung

Sui Pui Ng

Mei Chun Cheung

Ming Fai Chan

Ting Hin Mak

Kit-Lun Yick

Garcia Hin-Chun Kwok

Kenny Yat Hong Kwan

Mei-Chun Cheung

Yin Ling Sit

The present disclosure provides a bracewear for spinal correction and a system for posture training. The system for posture training involves both active and passive corrective forces by using the bracewear and a biofeedback system to address the spinal correction, which can eliminate the adversity of conventional hard braces and reduce the psychological and physiological barriers to treatment.

Bracewear for spinal correction and system for posture training

A biofeedback system for monitoring patient-related signals of a patient having adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS) is disclosed. The present invention provides a personalized biofeedback to the patient based on the patient-related signals for restoring balance in muscle activities and reducing displacement of both sides of the patient's spine as a treatment for AIS. The biofeedback system comprises clothing integrated with posture monitoring sensors, and one or more computational systems comprising a sensor-based sEMG posture training subsystem for providing posture training and a posture monitoring subsystem for providing progressive training through daily activities. The sensor-based sEMG posture training subsystem comprises a posture training device coupled to a plurality of sEMG sensors, a feedback device and a calibration system. The posture monitoring subsystem monitors the posture of the patient and determines the properness of the posture by comparing the real-time data with the calibrated signals from the sEMG posture training subsystem.

Biofeedback system with body mapping clothing for patients with adolescent idiopathic scoliosis

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Hong Kong, China

Yiu-Wan Joanne Yip