Study on the use of soft ankle-foot exoskeleton for alternative mechanical prophylaxis of deep vein thrombosis

Deep vein thrombosis (DVT) is a severe medical condition that can affect patients who are long-term bed-ridden, due to diseases such as stroke. Current prevention methods for DVT focus on either pharmacological prophylaxis or mechanical prophylaxis, where current mechanical prophylaxis systems that target prevention of DVT have limited success rates as patients are still susceptible to occurrences of DVT even with long-term usage of such...