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EMG pants for smart textile-based monitoring of the muscle activity in the pelvic floor in physical therapy

People worldwide suffer from bladder incontinence. For patients it is difficult to train the pelvic floor without a physiotherapist. The aim of this paper is to show how smart textiles can be applied in telemedicine. Textile electrodes and conductive paths are embroidered into underwear. The electromyography (EMG) signals of the pants are sent to an app. The app visualizes the data of the muscle activity.

Sandra Blocher, Carsten Linti, Deborah Jachan, Joachim Metter, André Eberhardt-Fonseca, Esther Liebeton, Valérie Bartsch and Götz T. Gresser

Deutsche Institute für Textil- und Faserforschung Denkendorf, Koerschtalstrasse 26, Denkendorf, Germany; Deutsche Institute für Textil- und Faserforschung Denkendorf, Denkendorf, Germany; Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany; Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Department of Geriatrics and Medical Gerontology, Nursing Research Group in Geriatrics, Berlin, Germany; HASPRO GmbH, 8020 Graz, Austria; Deutsche Institute für Textil- und Faserforschung Denkendorf, Denkendorf, Germany; Deutsche Institute für Textil- und Faserforschung Denkendorf, Denkendorf, Germany; Deutsche Institute für Textil- und Faserforschung Denkendorf, Denkendorf, Germany; Deutsche Institute für Textil- und Faserforschung Denkendorf, Denkendorf, Germany.

Source: Blocher, Sandra, Linti, Carsten, Jachan, Deborah, Metter, Joachim, Eberhardt-Fonseca, André, Liebeton, Esther, Bartsch, Valérie and Gresser, Götz T.. "EMG pants for smart textile-based monitoring of the muscle activity in the pelvic floor in physical therapy" Current Directions in Biomedical Engineering, vol. 10, no. 4, 2024, pp. 95-98. https://doi.org/10.1515/cdbme-2024-2023