Iran-Made Smart Pillow Prevents Arthritis in Neck
The technological product is equipped with an electric charging unit to provide electricity to the pillow in which the charging, electricity and sleep monitoring units are integrated and installed in the sponge.
The smart pillow has been produced by experts in medical engineering field at Viragostar Almas company.
“The invention is a charging unit for providing electricity from the outside to the pillow which includes a sponge with the function of a pillow and an outer cover around the sponge,” Alireza Ahmadi, the director of the technological unit, told ANA.
“A sleep monitoring unit has been used to monitor the person's sleeping condition, and an electric air pump is also applied to automatically inject or extract air in an air tube,” he added.
“Also, a charging connection terminal connected to an external power cable exists in the smart pillow to provide power from the rechargeable battery next to the charging connection terminal for manual operation of various modes for better sleep performance,” Ahmadi said.
In a relevant development in September, Iranian researchers at a knowledge-based company had also used state-of-the-art technology to design and make a rehabilitation device for the joints and muscles which works actively and adaptively.
“We have built an active and adaptive joint and muscle rehabilitation device which has two canals of electrical stimulation with the ability to adjust the output current, calculate the torque of the patient's joint in active resistance and support movement, enjoys the ability to adjust the height and use it for all joints, and has an easy-to-use touch screen,” said Adel Parvizi Fard, the managing director of the knowledge-based company stationed at the Innovation Center of the Science and Technology Park of the Academic Center for Education, Culture and Research in Kermanshah.
Noting that the range of motion of the injured joint is improved with the help of this device, he said, “After the joint has recovered and its range of motion has returned to normal, the next step is to work on the patient's muscle, and adaptively, the amount of force that the muscle needs to apply to the joint in an isokinetic way.”
“Also, the axis in which the joint is placed is repaired with the help of this device; the affected joint moves in a reciprocating axis (to the extent that the patient is able to move),” Parvizi Fard stated.
“Actually, this device is like a multi-purpose physiotherapy device that we can adjust the opening and closing mode by controlling the electrical stimulation of the current and provide all of them as a complete package of rehabilitation services to the patient,” he underlined.
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