A medical support assembly garment dimensionally adapted to receive a torso of a patient. Actuators of this device defined by data elements and stored in a constant memory value are controlled by an electronic control unit. Based on a result of the vector quantization, the encoding system determines a replacement candidate for a pattern vector which is registered with the code book. The controller is configured to move the element of the first valve to a position based on the desired velocity signal and to move the element of the second valve to a position based on the load signal and a desired pressure within the second chamber. Further, weight factors are generated on the basis of a difference between the instantaneous pilot symbol value and the pilot symbol value, and the respective demodulated receive data is weighted by using the weight factors to combine the receive data.