Textile Electrodes for Electrotherapy

Anne Schwarz Pfeiffer
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Electronics have been present in medicine for decades. Electrocardiography, electromyography and electrotherapy are widely applied methods. While electrodes that are used for monitoring functions are small, the size of electrodes applied in electrotherapy is rather large. The latter electrodes have to be able to supply relatively high currents to the muscles. Due to the muscle contractions caused during the stimulation, skin movement and perspiration may loosen or disrupt the electrode. To accommodate for the relative skin movement under them, the electrodes need to possess sufficient flexibility to ensure good contact to the skin and avoid irritation and skin damage. Against this background textile electrodes integrated into clothes are an attractive alternative against self-adhesive electrodes as they ensure flexibility and a good contact to the human body. In this study, commercially available self-adhesive electrodes are compared to different textile electrodes. The electrodes were placed with a distance of approximately six centimetre on the lower legs of four healthy volunteers. Connected to a commercially available electrostimulation set-up, the different pairs of electrodes are investigated at different current intensities. It was shown that textile electrodes are an attractive alternative towards commercially available electrodes showing a smooth increase in stimulation with increasing current intensities.
电疗用纺织电极
电子学在医学领域已经存在了几十年。心电图、肌电图和电疗是应用广泛的方法。虽然用于监测功能的电极很小,但用于电疗的电极尺寸相当大。后一种电极必须能够为肌肉提供相对较高的电流。由于在刺激过程中引起的肌肉收缩,皮肤运动和出汗可能使电极松动或破坏。为了适应其下的相对皮肤运动,电极需要具有足够的灵活性,以确保与皮肤良好接触,避免刺激和皮肤损伤。在这种背景下,与自粘电极相比,将纺织电极集成到衣服中是一个有吸引力的选择,因为它们确保了灵活性和与人体的良好接触。在这项研究中,将市售的自粘电极与不同的纺织电极进行了比较。电极以大约6厘米的距离放置在4名健康志愿者的小腿上。连接到商用电刺激装置,在不同的电流强度下研究不同的电极对。结果表明,纺织电极是一种有吸引力的替代商用电极,随着电流强度的增加,其刺激会平稳增加。
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