There are dime a dozen sports bras available, but most of them are poorly designed. A badly designed bra not only adds to the discomfort of women, but can also cause long-term injury and exercise-induced breast pain associated with excessive vertical breast displacement. This is especially true of large-breasted women and those involved in physical activities such as jogging and walking as the load generated by the breast momentum is borne by the straps putting immense pressure on the shoulders.
Scientists have now come up with an ‘intelligent bra’ with sensors to give the lingerie manufacturers enough information about the chest movement so that they can incorporate the changes and come up with the right design that makes women comfortable. The special fabric comes with in-built sensors to detect the movement as women exercise.
The fabric was tested on women with 36D and 38DD bra sizes as they walked and jogged and found that the movement of the chest varied from 0.4 inches to an inch while they walked and 2.1 inches to 2.7 inches as they jogged.
The study’s authors said:
Our results show that the fabric sensors are suitable to monitor breast motion and brassiere function. Brassiere designers will have the ability directly to assess the effects of changes to each brassiere component.
Hopefully, the manufacturers would make use of the data and come up with comfortable designs so that women can heave a sigh of relief soon!
Via: Telegraph
