A Soft Robotic Sleeve for Physiotherapy: Improving Elbow Rehabilitation in Baseball Pitchers.

Background And Purpose: Throwing a baseball involves intense exposure of the arm to high speeds and powerful forces, which contributes to an increasing prevalence of arm injuries among athletes. Traditional rigid exoskeletons and rehabilitation equipment frequently lack portability, safety, ergonomic design, and affordability. Traditional rehabilitation approaches frequently require therapist monitoring, resulting in therapy delays.

Real time eye dose reduction in fluoroscopy with auditory and visual feedback dosimeter through swine model experiments.

This paper proposes measurement and reduction of eye dose in real time for the physician and the assistant performing fluoroscopy guided arterial puncture. Eye dose rates were measured for 30 fluoroscopy-guided punctures of bilateral femoral arteries in pigs. Fifteen fluoroscopy-guided punctures were performed using real time radiation dosimeter without auditory and visual feedback and other fifteen punctures were done using real time radiation dosimeter with visual and auditory feedback worn on forehead by an interventional cardiologist having experience of more than 10 years.

Reduction of radiation exposure to operating physician and assistant using a real-time auditory feedback dosimeter during femoral artery puncturing: a study on swine model.

Background: Real-time dosimeters may create a relatively safer environment not only for the patient but also for the physician and the assistant as well. We propose the use of a real-time radiation measurement dosimeter having auditory feedback to reduce radiation exposure.

Methods: Radiation dose rates were measured for 30 fluoroscopy-guided puncturing procedures of femoral arteries in swine.

Reduction of operator radiation exposure using a passive robotic device during fluoroscopy-guided arterial puncture: an experimental study in a swine model.

Background: Vascular interventions imply radiation exposure to the operating physician (OP). To reduce radiation exposure, we propose a novel passive robotic device for fluoroscopy-guided arterial puncturing.

Methods: X-ray dose rates were measured for a total of 30 fluoroscopy-guided puncture femoral arteries in 15 pigs.