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GAIT & POSTURE
Volume 30, Issue 4, Pages 469-476Publisher
ELSEVIER IRELAND LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.gaitpost.2009.07.111
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Upper extremity model; Arm model; Shoulder joint; Elbow joint; Motion analysis; Universal goniometer measurements; Functional method
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A new upper extremity model is introduced for clinical application. It combines the advantages of functional methods to determine the joint parameters for the shoulder joint centre and the elbow axis location with the ease of a minimal skin mounted marker set. Soft tissue artefacts at the shoulder and upper arm are reduced via a coordinate transfer between dynamic calibration and the actual motion analyzed. A unique technical frame linked to markers on the forearm is defined for the humerus. The protocol has been applied to 50 subjects over a wide age range (5-85 years) and with varying physical status, proving clinical feasibility. Variability in joint centre localization in repeated measures was typically below 1 cm. Based on these estimated joint centre locations for shoulder and elbow, three. shoulder joint angles together with elbow flexion and forearm pro-/supination were determined in a large set of static arm postures in 5 subjects. These were compared to synchronous universal goniometer measurements to analyse infra-tester, inter-tester, and inter-subject repeatability. Differences between the computed angles and the angles obtained directly with the goniotneter remained below +/- 5 for joint angles up to 120 degrees and +/- 10 degrees above 120 degrees. (C) 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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