Smart Textiles and Wearables for Health and Fitness delivers an in-depth look at how innovative technologies and materials are reshaping healthcare—especially through flexible electronics. This volume explores how sensors, biometrics, and biomarkers can be built into textiles to enable immediate health monitoring and data collection, supporting patient monitoring, diagnosis, and rehabilitation.
Key benefits
- Understand the transformative role of flexible electronics in healthcare and the technologies and materials behind the “flexible electronics revolution.”
- Learn how intelligent textiles and wearable devices can support patient monitoring, diagnosis, and rehabilitation workflows.
- Explore the incorporation of sensors, biometrics, and biomarkers for immediate health monitoring and data collection.
- Discover applications in managing chronic conditions and tracking sports and fitness activities.
- Examine how smart textiles and wearables can facilitate human-computer interaction in medical settings.
Who this is for
- Healthcare professionals, researchers, and students interested in wearable and textile-based health technology.
- Engineers and innovators focused on flexible electronics, sensors, and biometrics embedded in wearable materials.
- Anyone seeking a comprehensive understanding of how smart textiles and wearables can improve healthcare delivery and patient outcomes.
Details
- Title: Smart Textiles and Wearables for Health and Fitness
- Brand / publisher: Orthopedics Library; Wiley - Blackwell
- Edition: 1
- Authors: Abhishek Kumar, Jyotirmoy Pathak, Balwinder Raj, Suman Lata Tripathi
- Published date: 2025-04-09
- ISBN: 9781394302871
- ISBN-10: 1394302878
- Pages: 464
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