| dc.description.abstract | Design of pressure sensing
circuit and related parameters are
discussed in this paper. A significant
portion of the world’s population is
plagued by diabetes. It can deteriorate the
organs of the body at a very high rate
leading to fatal conditions, one of them
being foot ulcers. The ulceration can lead to
a choice between amputation of infected
limb/s and loss of life. Deterioration of
nerves cause the protective sensation to
decrease with time. This causes high
tensions in certain areas of the skin of feet
due to poor judgement of weight
distribution which in-turn causes the
tissues to thin off and be torn layer by layer,
resulting in ulcers. While prevention is
better than cure, those that already suffer
from and those that are recovering from
such an ordeal would benefit very much
from a handy device that can sense
pressure distribution since it would help
guide the patient to correct his or her gait
movements accordingly. It would also be
useful in selection of footwear since
footwear can also cause change in gait. The
idea is to build a prototype component that
can measure and display the foot pressure
of key points of the foot during gait at an
affordable cost to a majority of the Sri
Lankan population. | en_US |
