| Title |
Knitted covers for compression therapy of amputated limbs |
| Authors |
Mikucioniene, Daiva ; Halavska, Liudmyla ; Melnyk, Liudmyla ; Milasius, Rimvydas ; Laureckiene, Ginta |
| DOI |
10.25368/2025.006 |
| Full Text |
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| Is Part of |
AUTEX 2025 World conference, 11-13 June 2025, Dresden, Germanyc: book of abstracts / editors: O. Kyzymchuk, Y. Kyosev, C. Cherif.. Dresden : Technische Universit¨at Dresden. 2025, p. 260 |
| Keywords [eng] |
compression therapy ; amputated limb ; knit ; elongation |
| Abstract [eng] |
Compression therapy can be applied to the treatment of amputated limbs in order to correct stump formation, to repair scars as well as to reduce phantom pain. It is a wide range of reasons for a limb amputation, like traffic accidents or industrial and home injuries, burns, diabetes, etc. The number of amputations increases especially during times of war. Conducted research showed, that compression covers knitted by combining elastomeric yarns with other functional yarns can be successfully used for compression therapy of amputated limbs. Twenty-four variants of knitted structures were developed for compression covers of amputated limbs by changing knitting pattern and two main knitting parameters: the feeding speed of the elastomeric inlay-yarn and the course density. Tubular compression covers were knitted on a circular weft-knitting machine. 20 tex cotton yarn and 4.4 tex textured polyamide yarn with 2.2 tex polyurethane core were used for the plated ground structure, and the same textured polyamide yarn with 2.2 tex polyurethane core was used as the elastomeric inlay-yarn. It was found that feeding speed of elastomeric inlay-yarn has insignificant influence on the compression when the cover is used in the limits of low elongation (up to 50 %). Therefore, this factor can be eliminated when designing weft-knitted compression covers. While the influence of the second parameter - the course density on the compression is significant. This influence has the linear character: as the loop density increases, the generated compression increases as well. This research also confirmed that, in the area of low elongations (for elastomeric knits up to the 50 %), generated compression linearly depends on the elongation, which appears due to the difference between the circumferences of a compression cover and a limb. |
| Published |
Dresden : Technische Universit¨at Dresden |
| Type |
Conference paper |
| Language |
English |
| Publication date |
2025 |
| CC license |
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