NDLI: 3-D Pain Drawings and Seating Pressure Maps: Relationships and Challenges

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Spyridonis, F. Ghinea, G.
Copyright Year	1997
Abstract	Mobility impaired people constitute a significant portion of the adult population, which often experience back pain at some point during their lifetime. Such pain is usually characterized by severe implications reflected on both their personal lives, as well as on a country's health and economic systems. The traditional 2-D representations of the human body often used can be limited in their ability to efficiently visualize such pain for diagnosis purposes. Yet, patients have been shown to prefer such drawings. However, considering that pain is a feeling or emotion that is subjective in nature, the pain drawings could be consequently regarded as a subjective means of communicating such pain. As a result, the study described in this paper proposes an alternative, which encompasses a 3-D pain visualization solution, developed in a previous work of ours. This alternative is complemented with the upcoming technique of pressure mapping for more objectivity in the pain data collection. The results of this study have shown that the proposed approach is a promising solution for the purpose intended, and it could generally prove to be a significant complementary method in the area of medical practice for the mobility impaired community.
Sponsorship	IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society IEEE Computer Society
Page Count	7
File Size	675288
Starting Page	409
Ending Page	415
File Format	PDF
ISSN	10897771
Volume Number	15
Issue Number	3
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2011-05-01
Publisher Place	U.S.A.
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Pain Three dimensional displays Back Visualization Pressure measurement Wheelchairs Buttocks 3-D visualization Mobile data collection objective pain measurements pain drawings pain visualization pressure mapping
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Electrical and Electronic Engineering Computer Science Applications Biotechnology

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