RMUTT creates clothing products for the disabled

Wearing clothes, which are produced for normal people, causes more problems for the disabled – people who cannot use parts of their bodies properly because he or she has different body shape. This problem has lead two researchers, named Ms. Sriprapai Juynoy and Ms. Pluemchit Tachatammarak from the Faculty of Engineering, RMUTT, to create a new design of clothes and others for the disabled.

Ms. Sriprapai said, “this research about the new design of clothes and others for the disabled has helped volunteers who are working for the International Disabled Organization in the Asia and Pacific Region. Starting from study about constrains of the disabled’s body – both in movement and shape, and it also includes a study on how to help their life living conveniently. In this time, two researchers have also emphasized on the disabled, who has to sit on the wheelchair for longer time (more than 10 hours per day) and fabric which will be used in this experimentation. The used fabric is cotton because it can ventilate the air well and be boiled to kill bacteria. Moreover, they have also focused on disable people who need helper and diaper package including urine bags.

Producing the disabled’s clothes is needed to consider about the wider hip edge, shorter front crotch and longer back crotch (compared to normal shape of trousers or shorts), snap button, convenience of urine tube and garter for hiding urine bag with his or her legs.

In case of disabled with leg muscle atrophy from polio (Poliomyelitis), the researchers have also produced trousers with shorter front crotch and longer back crotch including elastic edge. At two upper sides of trouser, the researchers also produced openable trouser sides in order that disabled people can take off their trousers easier when he or she needs to open. In deep detail, there are bells struck with trousers whereas they can select to open which side while another side closed. To provide more diversity, they also produce which trousers’ sides can be opened (open from the side of trousers). In near future, there may be many studies on other clothes for the disabled’s life in daily activities and different types of disable people.

Translated by Mr. Suraporn Onputtha