Preg Ease: A Pregnancy Wearable for Posture Correction, Vitals Monitoring, and Pain Relief.

Abstract

Pregnant women go through lumber and pelvic pain during and post pregnancy because of growing fetus and excess fluids in the body. It is considered that motion patterns during pregnancy accompanied by flexure and rotation of trunk are linked with lower back pain. The behavior of pregnant women such as standing, sitting down or lying down, is investigated throughout the pregnancy by monitoring their body postures through sensors placed in wearable neck accessory. The wearable neck accessory has small sensors that are placed at the spinal area of the body which monitors the body posture when slouching or leaning. Via experiments conducted among pregnant women wearing the neck accessory and those not wearing, it is found out that the sensors that are linked to the wearable bracelet or smart wrist accessory having LCD screen display are proved helpful in giving feedback of your back postures as well as your pulse rate, heartbeats and saturation and other pregnancy vitals. The results show that the lumber and pelvic pain can be reduced to great extent if pregnant women take account of their body postures and evaluate their moving patterns from the start of their pregnancies through feedback they get through the wearable accessory and the app.