Abstract
The article substantiates the choice of materials for designing adaptive underclothes for the most severe group of children with infantile cerebral paralysis – bed patients. As a rule, these are denied children, who, in principle, spend their lives in medical hospitals, require constant care by medical staff. Such children are in sharp need of specialized adaptive underclothes, which could significantly improve the quality of life of such children and facilitate care for them by medical staff. In many respects the quality of similar clothes depends on properly selected materials. Analysis of modern innovative materials that could have been used to create such clothes was conducted. Hygienic, physical and mechanical properties of existing knitted materials were studied according to standard methods for identifying the most suitable for similar clothes.