Abstract: The invention relates to a device for assistance in the selection of a compression orthesis and in adapting same to the morphology of a limb.

Abstract: The invention relates to a device for assistance in the selection of a compression orthesis and in adapting same to the morphology of a limb.

Abstract: The device comprises a rigid former reproducing the volume of a portion of the body and suitable for receiving the compressive orthosis. The former (10) incorporates a plurality of sensors (22) distributed over various points of the former and configured in such a manner as to avoid significantly modifying the surface profile of the former, the sensors essentially measuring the pressure applied locally on the former by the orthosis at the location of the sensor and perpendicularly to the surface of the former. Advantageously, at the location of the measurement point, each sensor comprises a thin wall capable of being subjected to microdeformation under the effect of the pressure applied by the orthosis, and means such as a strain gauge bridge, for example. The thin wall can constitute a portion of a support pellet which is fitted to the former in such a manner that its outside surface, which includes the thin wall, is flush with the outside surface of the former.

Abstract: From a measurement of the response of a thermal enclosure to an action, a set of coefficients representative of the pulsed response of the enclosure as a function of the operating temperature is elaborated by means of an algorithm, each pulsed response is recorded and the model is represented by sets of coefficients stored in different memory blocks connected to a microprocessor or microsystem (53) using the model and a set of algorithms for regulating the enclosure.