Ostomy and clothing: a primer on developing clothing for people with an ostomy

The people that the ostomy industry forgot.

intestinal stoma is a profound alteration in body function that a patient must manage day to day over significant periods of time, often permanently. Although the creation of a stoma takes place in a tertiary care surgical context, long-term management is very often a primary care issue and most GPs and community-based nurses are familiar with patients with stomas. In developed countries, where...

Changing an ostomy pouching system.

A pressure ulcer and an ostomy: an unlikely combination?

Developing Simulation Techniques for an Interactive Clothing System

In this contribution towards creating interactive environments for garment design and simulation, we present a powerful mechanically based cloth simulation system. It is based on an optimized way to compute elastic forces between vertices of an irregular triangle mesh, which combines the precision of elasticity modelisation with the speed of a simple spring-mass particle system. Efficient numer...

Ostomy care and radiation therapy.