Paraplegic athletes fight their bodies to the out-and-out point of accumulation — and sometimes beyond . When an athlete injures a body part he or she ca n’t feel , that can lead to some very dangerous situations . Now , a design squad at Imperial College Londonhas an clever solution : an gymnastic suit of clothes that uses off - the - ledge pressure sensation sensing film to show where serious impacts have occurred .
Team Bruise ’s solutionpairs athletic Lycra pants with a pressure - smell film in the beginning intended to measure the gap between roll in manufacturing plant machinery and the similar . The greater the pressure , the more intense the color . It ’s a union so perfectly sensible , it makes you wonder why nobody consider of it before .
It ’s strong to overstate the importance of this growing . Sure , it ’s skillful for smaller bumps , the kind of black - and - blues that a wheelchair athlete might not see until the end of the 24-hour interval . But for an athlete who ca n’t palpate pain below a certain point , even a vicious injury could go unnoticed . And that can sometimes be fatal , as Paralympic alpine skier Talan Skeels - Piggins tell Wired UK :
The trauma - sensing suit is still in paradigm phase angle , with the hope that additional testing and refining could lead to aggregated yield and internalisation into stock gymnastic apparel . When that pass , it ’ll be a boon for all types of athletics , helping to hone our reason of which injuries should sideline an jock for further examination . But it ’ll be an especially swelled benediction for Paralympians and the world of otherwise - abled jock who push their bodies to the pinnacle of performance . [ Imperial College LondonviaWired UK ]
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2024-12-19/bruise-suit
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