University of Akron biomedical engineering seniors, from left, Yianni Kantzos, Neil Mazzone, Taylor Shark and Keridan Morgan present their prototype device to help children with pelvic floor dysfunction during Senior Design Day on April 16.students recently partnered with Akron Children’s Hospital to create a new device to help children with pelvic floor dysfunction.
Pelvic floor dysfunction affects approximately 1 in 7 school-aged children, according to Akron Children’s Hospital. It happens when patients are unable to completely empty their bladder due to the inability to relax pelvic floor muscles. While therapies exist that can be used at a doctor’s office, many patients benefit from practicing techniques to retrain the pelvic floor muscles at home.
To create the device, students had to follow the Food and Drug Administration’s waterfall design process, which includes the following requirements:Design input, where customer requirements are converted to engineering requirementsVerification and validation testing to ensure the device works as expected and meets the customer needs and requirements
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