Research and evaluation of functional clothing for patients with paraplegia of both lower limbs

Abstract Because of the particularity of the body, the clothes of ordinary people are not suitable for paraplegia patients. In this paper, by means of questionnaire survey and incision experiment, a functional garment is developed for patients with paraplegia of both lower extremities, which integrates the structural fitness and convenience of wearing and taking off. Moreover, the functional clothing was evaluated by referring to the convenience evaluation system and combining with the subjective evaluation method. The results showed that the structural fitness of the functional garments was improved, especially the tension of the elbows and knees was significantly reduced. In addition, the convenience of wearing functional pants was also significantly improved: participants’ participation in the three ADLs was significantly increased when wearing functional pants, all of which were 100%. The time taken to complete three ADLs in functional pants was also reduced, among which the replacement of diapers was the most efficient, reducing the time by 70.39%.