First results of spinal segment - related motion analysis in human gait using rasterstereography

摘要

Back pain is still one of the big health problems in the world. The majority is of functional genesis, which could not be sufficiently investigated so far. Rasterstereography has been proved a valid [1] and reliable [1] high precision technique to analyze the shape of surfaces quantitatively. Orientated on visible anatomical landmarks a suitable algorithm can be used for combining the back shape data with an estimation of the corresponding spinal segment. Up until now this was used for static measurements. To enable future research in the area of the back pain we have tried to extend this method to the dynamic analysis of the shape of surfaces.