From: The role of wearables in spinal posture analysis: a systematic review
Application | |
Post-operative rehabilitation [25] | |
- 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] | |
- 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] |