基于EMS的盆底肌训练裤设计及评估

Design and evaluation of pelvic floor muscle training trousers based on EMS

针对盆底康复现状中存在的产妇盆底肌训练依从性不足、盆底康复设备缺乏对女性隐私保护等问题,本研究设计了一套以裤装为载体、基于可穿戴技术的盆底肌训练系统。首先围绕产妇需求展开调研,明确关键设计要素;再基于肌肉电刺激(EMS)理论,设计EMS可穿戴系统;通过设计与优化盆底肌训练裤款式,将EMS系统合理嵌入裤装裆部,产妇通过该着装训练来刺激盆底肌收缩,促进肌群康复。最后,引入模糊评价法对本设计方案进行可行性评估。评估结果表明,该盆底肌训练裤效果显著,既可提升产妇盆底肌训练依从性,也具有较好的隐私性。

Pelvic floor dysfunction is a common disease of puerperae,and seriously affects their physical and mental health and quality of life.To prevent and cure the disease,an autonomous pelvic floor muscle training method is widely used in pelvic floor rehabilitation.Through investigation,it is found that puerperae cannot go through continuous rehabilitation training according to the doctor’s advice.In the current situation of pelvic floor rehabilitation,puerperae have a prominent problem of low compliance with pelvic floor muscle training.In view of this problem,the medical community has developed passive pelvic floor muscle rehabilitation equipment,which can improve the stimulation efficiency of target muscles and achieve the diversity of training environment.This kind of pelvic floor muscle rehabilitation equipment improves the lack of compliance of maternal training to a certain extent,but it cannot avoid the exposure of puerperae’s privacy parts,which will lead to their aversion to medicine and psychological shadow.To solve the problem of inadequate maternal compliance and the lack of privacy protection for women in assistive devices in pelvic floor muscle rehabilitation training,we optimized the style and structure of the wearable pelvic floor muscle training system.Firstly,we carried out research to grasp the importance of puerperae with pelvic floor dysfunction to the above problems and their willingness to solve the problems.We obtained the specific needs of puerperae in terms of compliance,privacy,safety,comfort and aesthetics of pelvic floor muscle training pants,and proposed relevant design elements.According to the research results,this design mainly focused on improving the compliance and privacy of pelvic floor muscle training,while taking into account its safety,comfort and aesthetics.As for the hardware part of pelvic floor muscle training pants,we used the principle of muscle electrical stimulation training to improve the compliance of maternal pelvic floor muscle training.We first implanted the electric pulse piece into the crotch of the pants to make it fit the pelvic floor muscle,and then applied the low-frequency pulse current to stimulate the nerve or muscle to make it contract,effectively stimulating the pelvic floor muscle strength to restore the pelvic floor muscle strength and improving the compliance of maternal pelvic floor muscle training.In terms of style,related equipment was designed to hide the principle of muscle electrical stimulation training with specific trouser structure.According to the profile of women’s body structure,the cutting pieces were designed strictly according to the direction of hip and leg muscle group structure.The electric pulse tablet in the crotch was designed as a butterfly shape,which is more suitable for the structure of women’s pelvic floor muscle group,so as to protect female privacy.In the selection of materials,high safety performance components and high comfort fabrics were used.Ergonomics and aesthetics were used to fully consider the appearance and technological design of pelvic floor muscle training pants,so as to ensure the safety,comfort and aesthetics of pelvic floor muscle training pants.Finally,we used scenario simulation and fuzzy evaluation method to evaluate the design scheme.In this study,the evaluation index system of pelvic floor muscle training pants was first constructed,and was applied in the scenario simulation method to obtain the subjective score of the maternal.Finally,the feasibility evaluation of pelvic floor muscle training pants was carried out through the fuzzy evaluation method.The evaluation results show that the feasibility and satisfaction of this design are high,which indicates that the designer has certain pertinence and representativeness of the user needs obtained from the preliminary research.This design can better solve the problems of inadequate training compliance and poor privacy protection in the current situation of pelvic floor rehabilitation by stimulating the contraction of pelvic floor muscle group in parturient women wearing this dress.In this study,the feasibility and satisfaction of the design schemeare are evaluated to verify the effectiveness of the design,so as to lay a foundation for the continuous optimization of the design.This research idea can provide some reference for other functional clothing research related to disease rehabilitation training.In the future,this study can be deepened from the emotional direction,combined with psychology and other related theories,to enhance the positive emotion and positive emotion of maternal dress from the design,and to maintain maternal physical and mental health.