Abstract
Recently, because the people who need help have increased by aging, the burden of care and nursing has been increasing. In this study, in order to prevent low back pain of nurses, we focus on the disproportionate burden on the waist. We have developed a portable posture improvement system for nursing scene, which enlighten "nursing behavior of small burden on the waist by utilizing body mechanics". The function of the system is realized by the warning in real time, such that users of the system take a poor posture with the disproportionate burden on the waist. In addition, we have aimed to generate the high motivation to prevent the back pain themselves, by mounting a function to display the rate of poor posture. This system can carry on day-to-day operations of nursing, because it is small and lightweight. We consider that this system is useful to prevent back pain of nurse while at work.
