Flexible Sleeve Eversion for Easier Compression Garment Removal
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Solution Overview
Problem
Compression garments are difficult to apply and remove, especially for elderly or physically challenged individuals, and can disrupt underlying medical equipment, limiting their therapeutic benefits.
Innovation Solution
A sleeve system with a first and second opening, formed of continuous flexible material, that can be used to ever the compression garment around a pole for easy donning and doffing, utilizing a pole and strap mechanism to facilitate the eversion process, allowing the garment to be placed on or removed from a limb with reduced friction and effort.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If compression garments are applied using traditional methods, then the garment provides therapeutic support, but the application and removal process is difficult and time-consuming
Solution Approach 1:
A donning device with a cylindrical body and eversion portion is introduced as an intermediary tool. The compression garment is placed over the cylindrical body, and the eversion portion facilitates easy application and removal by allowing the garment to be inverted and slipped over the limb without manual struggle, thus maintaining therapeutic support while dramatically improving ease of operation
Solution Approach 2:
The donning device is divided into functional segments: a cylindrical body for garment placement and an eversion portion for facilitated removal. This segmentation allows each part to perform its specific function efficiently, making the overall process simpler and more manageable for users
2Reliability
If compression garments are applied tightly for effective compression, then therapeutic benefits are maximized, but the difficulty of application and removal increases
Solution Approach 1:
The donning device acts as a mediator that allows tight compression garments to be applied effectively while simplifying the process. The cylindrical body provides a smooth surface for the garment to slide over, and the eversion portion enables easy removal even of tightly fitted garments, thus maintaining compression effectiveness while reducing application difficulty
3Ease of operation
If traditional application methods are used, then the garment can be applied, but medical equipment underneath may be disrupted
Solution Approach 1:
The donning device with its cylindrical body serves as an intermediary that distributes the application force evenly. This prevents concentrated pressure that could disrupt medical equipment underneath, while still allowing the compression garment to be applied effectively and easily
Data Source
AI summary
Principles of the present disclosure contemplate use of a flexible sleeve to aid in donning and doffing garments, for example compression garments. The compression garment may be rolled around the sleeve via an eversion process. The compression garment may be unrolled from the sleeve and onto a limb via a reverse eversion process. Likewise, the compression garment may be unrolled from around a limb and onto the sleeve via an eversion process. By utilizing an eversion-based approach, compression garments may be donned and/or doffed more quickly and easily.