TY - JFULL AU - X.N. Chen and J.P. Wang and D. Jiang and S.M. Shen and Y.K. Yang PY - 2012/1/ TI - Breast Motion and Discomfort of Chinese Women in Three Breast Support Conditions T2 - International Journal of Biomedical and Biological Engineering SP - 706 EP - 712 VL - 6 SN - 1307-6892 UR - https://publications.waset.org/pdf/5000 PU - World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology NX - Open Science Index 72, 2012 N2 - Breast motion and discomfort has been studied in Australia, Britain and the United States, while little information was known about the breast motion conditions of Chinese women. The aim of this paper was to study the breast motion and discomfort of Chinese women in no bra condition, daily bra condition and sports bra condition. Breast motion and discomfort of 8 participants was assessed during walking at 5km h-1 and running at 10km h-1. Statistical methods were used to analyze the difference and relationship between breast displacement, perceived breast motion and breast discomfort. Three indexes were developed to evaluate the functions of bras on reducing objective breast motion, subjective breast motion and breast discomfort. The result showed that breast motion of Chinese women was smaller than previous research, which may be resulted from smaller breast size in Asian women. ER -