{"id":226557,"date":"2025-12-05T08:07:28","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T14:07:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/wearable-device-offloads-up-to-90-of-body-armor-weight-improving-comfort-and-mobility"},"modified":"2025-12-05T08:07:28","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T14:07:28","slug":"wearable-device-offloads-up-to-90-of-body-armor-weight-improving-comfort-and-mobility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/wearable-device-offloads-up-to-90-of-body-armor-weight-improving-comfort-and-mobility","title":{"rendered":"Wearable device offloads up to 90% of body armor weight, improving comfort and mobility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/wearable-device-offloads-up-to-90-of-body-armor-weight-improving-comfort-and-mobility2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Vanderbilt researchers have developed a lightweight wearable device that shifts body armor weight off the shoulders and back of soldiers, helping reduce pain and injury risk.<\/p>\n<p>A new study, \u201cWearable weight distribution devices for reducing injury risk: How varying amounts of body armor offloading affect biomechanics and comfort,\u201d is <a href=\"https:\/\/linkinghub.elsevier.com\/retrieve\/pii\/S0003687025001498\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal Applied Ergonomics.<\/p>\n<p>The research study was led by Paul Slaughter, a recent Vanderbilt Ph.D. graduate, and Karl Zelik, associate professor of mechanical engineering. Slaughter and Zelik, in partnership with Vanderbilt senior research engineer Chad Ice, also filed a patent on this wearable weight distribution device.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vanderbilt researchers have developed a lightweight wearable device that shifts body armor weight off the shoulders and back of soldiers, helping reduce pain and injury risk. A new study, \u201cWearable weight distribution devices for reducing injury risk: How varying amounts of body armor offloading affect biomechanics and comfort,\u201d is published in the journal Applied Ergonomics. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,1977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering","category-wearables"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226557\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}