**7. Future study**

Padding is critical in compression management; it serves several functions including pressure or comfort management. Padding can have different fibrous materials or structure due to which it can have different mechanical responses while it is being used. Understanding of all these parameters is essential to have improved understanding of the role of textile material or structure for the designing or engineering of optimised products. This chapter introduces the structure–property relationship of nonwoven padding. However, there exist several gaps in the literature which should be systematically examined for further improvement. Some future outlooks could be as follows:


Clearly, the effect of the external pressure has to be accounted for in future analysis. Also the model for fluid transport should be modified accordingly to account for porosity change due to external pressure.

