Implementation of Kegel Exercises for Prevention of Urinary Incontinence and Treatment Thereof
Today, much attention has been paid to the modern healthcare. Such attention has naturally led to the improvement of bio technology. Accordingly, there has been a trend toward growing IT convergence industries. Based on the sharp growth of IT and the deve
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Abstract Today, much attention has been paid to the modern healthcare. Such attention has naturally led to the improvement of bio technology. Accordingly, there has been a trend toward growing IT convergence industries. Based on the sharp growth of IT and the development of BT as well as the healthcare applicable to the trend, men and women would be able to take pelvic floor muscle exercises effectively and correctly by themselves. The Kegel medical equipments which are currently sold in the market make users exercise by giving electrical stimulations compulsively. Users need to take off their bottoms and take the Femcon therapy in a closed room. This causes various restrictions of time, space and hygiene. This thesis designs a Kegel medical equipment which combines BT and IT, free from restraint in regard to space and hygiene, without the need to take off bottoms. Keywords Kegel · Embedded system · Medical equipment
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Urinary incontinence or scatacratia defined as a symptom of abnormal urination or bowel movement which causes problems in relation to social activities or hygiene due to involuntary loss of urine or feces (Hwang et al., 1998) does not threaten life but has negative influences on various aspects socially and psychologically. Along with enlarged uterus, when a fetus’s head presses the pudendal nerve of a pregnant woman, or when the fascia, ligaments, nerves or muscles of the pelvic floor is damaged at the time of delivery, the innervation for the musculus sphincter J.-H. Cha() · J.-W. Jang Department Computer Engineering, Dong-Eui University, 176 Eomgwangro, Busan Jin-gu, Busan 614-714, Korea e-mail: [email protected], [email protected] © Springer Science+Business Media Singapore 2015 D.-S. Park et al. (eds.), Advances in Computer Science and Ubiquitous Computing, Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering 373, DOI: 10.1007/978-981-10-0281-6_100
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ani externus and the pelvic floor muscle may be damaged and accordingly, urinary incontinence or scatacratia may occur[1]. In Korea, there have been a number of prevalence surveys. According to the survey for 13,484 women over the age of 19 in 2005, the overall prevalence appeared to be 24.4%. The foregoing survey showed an interesting result that the prevalence of the married, unemployed or uneducated women was high. It was estimated that there would be a total of 4.2 million patients suffering urinary incontinence in Korea[2]. The research team of the University of Alabama(UA) in Bermingham, US presented in the latest version of the Journal of the American Medical Association(JAMA) that as a result of 200 American women patients of urinary incontinence taking Kegel exercises, the number of urinary incontinence decreased by approximately 80% or more after 8 weeks. On the contrary, in case of the patients who took drug treatment, the number of urinary incontinence decreased by 70% and in case of the patients who took a placebo, the number of urinary incontinence decreased only by 40%. The research team disc
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