FAST Professor’s Research Project Developing a Device to Stimulate Bedridden Patient’s Muscles

Dr. Maryam Davoudpour is working on a research project that has the potential for substantial cost and resource savings for health-care facilities along with improved patient outcomes.

Together with teams from St. Michael’s Hospital, the University of Toronto and Toronto Metropolitan University, Dr. Davoudpour is working on this project called Smart Textiles to Deliver Neuromuscular Electrical Stimulation (NMES) for Intensive Care Unit Acquired Weakness (ICUAW).

The project’s objective was to create a device that will connect to smart textile garments such as leg stockings and arm sleeves that will allow for automated and sustained NMES. NMES sends electrical impulses to nerves, which cause the muscles to contract.

Learn more about this exciting research project in this Humber Today feature story.