Smart Back-brace for Adolescence Scoliosis

  • Project Year: 2025-26
  • Departments Represented: MEng
  • Industry/Track: Health & Wellbeing

Over 100,000 adolescents in the U.S. are diagnosed with scoliosis annually, yet treatment effectiveness is often hindered by brace compliance, which averages only 58.8% of required wear time. To address this, our capstone project, BraceForward, integrates a low-profile, DIY piezoresistive pressure sensor system to implement into a scoliosis back-brace. This system utilizes an Arduino-based data acquisition setup to provide real-time monitoring of applied pressure, ensuring forces remain within the therapeutic window and providing objective feedback on both fit and wear time in order to improve clinical outcomes.

  • Advisor(s): Grace O'Connell
  • Team: Brandon Nguyen [ME] , Ethan Lindgren [BIOE], Lyna Luu [BIOE], Maxime Hache [ME], Winston Giang [ME]