Development of Improved Orthopedic Device for Back Pain

We will conduct laboratory experiments on an improved orthopedic low-back support device designed tindividuals suffering from low-back pain (LBP). Bending Non-Demand Return (BNDR) is an orthosis desihumans involved in forward bending tasks. BNDR will reduce low-back muscle activity while performingposition. Reduced lumbar muscle activity, biomechanically, indicates reduced spinal compressive loadreduction, in turn, could lead to reduction in fatigue and eventual on-set of LBP, or worse, injury.supported by conducting laboratory trials on human subjects both with, and without aid of the BNDR.determine the electromyographic (EMG) activity of the erector-spinae muscle group. Observed reductiowill support the hypothesis and demonstrate that the BNDR device can feasibly benefit individuals atlow-back pain during stoop labor. The low-back unloading method employed by BNDR could be applied inpreventative and rehabilitative environments. As such broad application severely limits other devicehave good market potential in the massive $80 billion low-back pain corporate problem.