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Development of Individually Adapted Electromagnetic Therapy System in Incontinence  

Noh, Si-Cheol (Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, Inje Univ.)
Kang, Kyu-Hong (Research Lab,. Gemtech Co., Ltd.)
Lee, Jeong-Seok (Research Lab,. Gemtech Co., Ltd.)
Min, Kwon-Sik (Dept. of Urology, College of Medicine, Inje Univ.)
Kwon, Jang-Woo (Dept. of Computer Engineering, Tongmyong Univ.)
Choi, Heung-Ho (Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, Inje Univ.)
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Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SC / v.45, no.4, 2008 , pp. 51-59 More about this Journal
Abstract
Incontinence is the urination disorder as the leakage of urine without her own volition and the woman's representative disease which reduce the life quality. The electromagnetic therapy has high possibility of development cause it has no needs of operant exercise, no arousing of shame and impossibility of infection. But, it has improvement points such as uniformity of the treatment protocol, patient dependance and absent of patient monitoring system. With these demands, the system which stimulate the pelvic flaw muscle with electromagnetic and monitoring the patient status during the therapy is proposed, in this study. And individually adapted electromagnetic therapy system for incontinence patient is also suggested. The proposed system consisted of electromagnetic generation device, cooling device, treating chair, patient monitoring device with pulsation and control software. The simulation for high power system and evaluation confirm was performed. With the development of control software, the convenience of using and maintenance are ensured and the patient adapted therapy protocol is applied. The developed patient adapted electromagnetic therapy system with monitoring device is regarded as the patient affinitive treating method by reducing the riskiness, improving the efficiency with patterned protocol and pre/post therapy. These results, in this study, can bring the safe and organized treatment method to incontinence patients and can lead the variable study for electromagnetic therapy in incontinence.
Keywords
Incontinence; Electromagnetic therapy; biosignal monitoring; therapy protocol; adapted therapy;
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