The project is being carried out on behalf of an external company, producing functional supplies for pregnant women that will make it easier for them to move around and undertake unencumbered physical activity, while also being comfortable and aesthetically pleasing. During the research, the solutions available on the market and the proposed product of the external company were confronted.
The products were verified by performing basic stability tests, i.e. the Romberg test, the Mann test, the Unterberger test, and the gait test. The tests involved healthy women who were not pregnant, but who wore high quality artificial gestational bellies. In the first stage, the previously mentioned movement patterns were examined when the women were not wearing the abdomen, then with the abdomen itself, and then with each subsequent provision. In addition, an EMG study was performed to verify how the muscles work during activities of daily living and how the subsequent proposed solutions relieve the most fatigue-prone parts of the body.
The results of the project included a detailed description of the determined stability parameters, along with an explanation and indication of the differences between the tested supplies. The whole is completed with a physiotherapist's commentary and a summary of the whole picture of the analysis carried out.
