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Design Strategies and Emerging Applications of High‐Performance Flexible Piezoresistive Pressure Sensors

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Flexible piezoresistive pressure sensors underpin wearable and soft electronics. This review links sensing physics, including contact resistance modulation, quantum tunneling and percolation, to unified materials/structure design. We highlight composite and graded architectures, interfacial/porous engineering, and microstructured 3D conductive networks
Feng Luo, Artur Ciesielski, Paolo Samorì   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Changes in lower limb muscle function and muscle mass following exercise-based interventions in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease : a review of the English-language literature [PDF]

, 2017
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patients often experience lower limb muscle dysfunction and wasting. Exercise-based training has potential to improve muscle function and mass, but literature on this topic is extensive and heterogeneous ...
Burtin, Chris, De Brandt, Jana, Derave, Wim, Franssen, Frits ME, Hansen, Dominique, Sillen, Maurice JH, Spruit, Martijn A   +6 more
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Microengineered Gradient Hydrogels for Mechanobiology

Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
Gradient hydrogels are used to mimic the mechanical heterogeneity in native tissues, offering powerful in vitro platforms to study cell‐material interactions in diverse pathophysiological contexts. Here, we present a comprehensive review of the design and experimental considerations for stiffness gradient hydrogels, discussing exemplary achievements ...
Shin Wei Chong, Deepu Ashok, Anna Waterhouse, Marcela M. M. Bilek, Daniele Vigolo   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Smallest worthwhile effect of land-based and water-based pulmonary rehabilitation for COPD

ERJ Open Research, 2015
This study aimed to determine the smallest worthwhile effect of land-based and water-based pulmonary rehabilitation on 6-min walk distance among people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).
Renae J. McNamara, Mark R. Elkins, Manuela L. Ferreira, Lissa M. Spencer, Robert D. Herbert   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Healthcare professional’s guide to cardiopulmonary exercise testing [PDF]

, 2015
Cardiopulmonary exercise testing (CPEX) is a valuable clinical tool that has proven indications within the fields of cardiovascular, respiratory and pre-operative medical care.
Frenneaux, Michael P., Gollop, Nicholas D., Loudon, Brodie L., Parasuraman, Sathish, Schwarz, Konstantin   +4 more
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Respiratory Signal Processing and Analysis Using Flexible Capacitive Sensor Data

Advanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.
Capacitive pressure sensors based on poly(glycerol sebacate) (PGS) substrates are developed for continuous, non‐invasive respiratory monitoring. Integrated with a signal processing algorithm, they enable accurate tracking of thoracic expansion and retraction.
Bernardo A. Vicente, Raquel Sebastião, Alda Marques, Vitor Sencadas   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Development of a Pulmonary Rehabilitation Patient Decision Aid for Patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: Mixed Methods Study

International Journal of COPD, 2023
Yuyu Jiang,1 Jianlan Guo,2 Mengjie Chen,1 Xueqiong Zou,1 Pingping Sun,1 Jing Gao,1 Baiyila Nuerdawulieti,1 Shanshan Wang1 1Research Office of Chronic Disease Management and Rehabilitation, Wuxi School of Medicine, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, People’s ...
Jiang Y, Guo J, Chen M, Zou X, Sun P, Gao J, Nuerdawulieti B, Wang S   +7 more
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Clinically important differences in the intensity of chronic refractory breathlessness [PDF]

, 2013
Context: Clinically important differences in chronic refractory breathlessness are ill defined but important in clinical practice and trial design.
Abernethy, Amy P., Bland, J. Martin, Currow, David C., Johnson, Miriam J., Oxberry, Stephen G.   +4 more
core   +2 more sources

Hybrid Continuum Robot Designs and Architectures for Healthcare Applications

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
Hybrid continuum robots represent an emerging class of flexible manipulators that blend materials, structures, and actuation concepts from the established fields of soft and continuum robotics. This review introduces an accessible framework to distinguish key hybridization approaches, surveys current designs aimed at complex clinical applications, and ...
Burak Ozdemir, Muhammad A. Khalid, Manish Chauhan, Pietro Valdastri, James H. Chandler   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Interdisciplinary rehabilitation in morbidly obese subjects: an observational pilot study

Monaldi Archives for Chest Disease, 2016
Background and aim. To assess the clinical effectiveness of a interdisciplinary rehabillitation programme (CR), in a population of morbidly obese subjects we have undertaken a observational study. Methods. The study included fifty-nine adult subjects (18
E. Clini, F. Prato, M. Nobile, M. Bondi, B. Serri, C. Cilione, D. Lugli   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source