Intelligent Compression Pneumatic Soft Robotics in Healthcare, Rehabilitation, and Human Recovery

Intelligent Compression: Pneumatic Soft Robotics in Healthcare, Rehabilitation, and Human Recovery offers a comprehensive academic exploration of how pneumatic soft-robotic systems are transforming the theory and practice of therapeutic compression. Moving beyond conventional pressure garments and static compression models, this book presents compression as an intelligent, responsive, and clinically meaningful interface between tissue mechanics, biological adaptation, and engineered control.
The volume guides readers from the medical foundations of venous and lymphatic dysfunction into the material architecture of soft actuators, wearable design, therapeutic operating modes, integrated sensing, real-time physiological monitoring, and adaptive control systems informed by artificial intelligence. It then advances into clinical therapeutics, sports recovery, multimodal and hybrid therapy platforms, and the ethical, regulatory, and commercial realities that shape translation into real-world care.
Written in a rigorous but readable scholarly voice, this book is designed for biomedical engineers, rehabilitation researchers, clinicians, wearable-device developers, graduate students, and innovation leaders seeking a deeper understanding of how intelligent compression can evolve from a mechanical intervention into a data-aware, patient-centered therapeutic platform.