The proceedings of the JSME annual meeting
Online ISSN : 2433-1325
2007.5
Session ID : 0933
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0933 Stress Analysis of Pressure Ulcer Development Region in Supine Position
Eiji ISOBEShogo YAMADAKenichi OSHITAShigeru NAGAKI
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Abstract
Pressure ulcer is intractable ulcer and have much emotional distress for patients and increase strain for care person. Now an pressure ulcer is concern in our country with increase bedridden elderly with expeditious advent of aging society. Therefore in this research we focused attention on the external causes (shearing force and pressure) of pressure ulcer generating mechanism. We carried out several experimental investigations and finite element analysis for the realization of easing the burden of patients.
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