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Design, Fabrication, and Field Testing of a Wearable Back Support Device for Farm Laborers to Enhance the Spine Relaxation during Upright Bending Farming Activities.

Farmer-Centric Design, Fabrication, Validation, Laboratory Testing, and Field Evaluation of an Agriculture Support Exoskeleton for Enhancing the Flexion Relaxation Phenomenon During Upright Bending Farming Tasks - NA

Status
Active, not recruiting
Phases
Unknown
Study type
Interventional
Source
CTRI
Registry ID
CTRI/2026/01/100770
Enrollment
13
Registered
2026-01-09
Start date
Unknown
Completion date
Unknown
Last updated
2026-02-02

For informational purposes only — not medical advice. Sourced from public registries and may not reflect the latest updates. Terms

Conditions

None listed

Interventions

Intervention1: With Agriculture Support Exoskeleton: Design, Fabrication, Validation, Laboratory Testing, and Field Evaluation of an Agriculture Support Exoskeleton within 2 year Control Intervention1

Sponsors

Datta Meghe Institute of Higher Education and Research
Lead Sponsor
Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology VNIT
Collaborator

Eligibility

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: Farm laborers actively engaged in agricultural work for more than or equal to 7 hours/day, farm laborers with over 5 years of farming experience, willing to participate and provide informed consent, and working as a farm laborer during the harvesting period from Feb-March

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: History of lumbar surgery in the past 12 months or scheduled for major surgery in the next 12 months, presence of radiating lower back pain, fractures, neurological disorders, or spine exercise training in the 3 months before the onset of the study. Uncontrolled mental health condition that would impede participation and with contraindications to physical activity. Presence of inflammatory arthritis, malignancies, pregnancy, or having given birth in the past 6 months. Severe musculoskeletal deformities or other contraindications to exoskeleton device use. Agricultural workers working as office employees, truck drivers, recent migrants, landlords who are not working in the field, and farm laborers who have not been involved in agriculture for the past year and are involved in some other work. Under medications like anti-coagulants, steroids, etc

Design outcomes

Primary

MeasureTime frame
Questionnaire for the Evaluation of Physical Assistive Devices, Local perceived pressure, System Usability Scale, Surface Electromyography Mean power frequency, Median power frequency, Root Mean Square, Maximum Voluntary Contraction Timepoint: At Baseline, ongoing process and after the manufacturing of the agriculture support exoskeleton device—

Secondary

MeasureTime frame
NILTimepoint: NIL—

Countries

India

Contacts

Public ContactDr Gurjeet Kaur

Datta Meghe Institute of Higher Education and Research

irshadphysio@rediffmail.com9406010010

Outcome results

None listed

Source: CTRI (via WHO ICTRP) · Data processed: Feb 7, 2026