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Table 3 Summary of posture wearable applicability

From: The role of wearables in spinal posture analysis: a systematic review

Application

Post-operative rehabilitation [25]

Falls [3, 13, 22]

 - Reduced face-to-face hours with rehabilitation provider

 - Detection of elderly falls within the home

 - Tele-rehabilitation

 - Improvement of postural stability to decrease the prevalence of falls

Treatment of MSK disorders

Workplace use

 - Adolescent idiopathic scoliosis [40]

 - Office workers [6, 16]

 - Postural kyphosis [44]

 - Construction workers [11.13]

Diagnosis

Comparison of treatments

 - Pathological spine postures [24]

 - E.g. spine operation types

 - Assist in the clinical diagnosis and rehabilitation of other MSK disorders [9]

 - Through pre-operative and post-operative monitoring [9]

Monitoring of disease progression

 

 - Parkinson’s Disease [43]