Ruth Ellis’s Suit

4 June 2001 − Ruth

STYLES OF RATIONALITY Ruth

By whatever general principles and mechanisms animal behavior is governed, human behavior control rides piggyback on top of the same or very similar mechanisms. We have reflexes. We can be conditioned. The movements that make up our smaller actions are mostly caught up in perception-action cycles following perceived Gibsonian affordances. Still, without doubt there are levels of behavior contro...

In-Suit Sensor Systems for Characterizing Human-Space Suit Interaction

Although the U.S. has studied space suit performance for decades, relatively little is known about how the astronaut moves and interacts within the space suit. We propose the use of insuit sensor systems to characterize this interaction and present our results using pressure sensors and inertial measurement units (IMUs) inside the David Clark Mobility Mock-Up and the Mark III space suit from NA...

Dry suit squeeze.

DESCRIPTION A 32-year-old scuba diver was admitted to the emergency department for distinct cutaneous lesions. Following an uneventful dive, his peers suspected of several lesions over his body pertaining to decompression sickness (DCS). After his initial assessment, he was referred to the underwater and hyperbaric medicine department for consultation. The patient was a senior diver and denied ...

Clinical Policy Bulletin: Suit Therapy

Aetna considers suit therapy or home use of a suit therapy device (also known as the Adeli Suit, Penguin Suit, Polish Suit, Stabilizing Pressure Input Orthoses, Therapy Suit, Therasuit, and TheraTogs) experimental and investigational for the treatment of members with cerebral palsy or other conditions (e.g., gait rehabilitation following stroke) because there is inadequate evidence of the effec...