DEVICE FOR FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT OF A SHOULDER

摘要

The present invention relates to a device for a functional assessment of a shoulder comprising three gyroscopes, three accelerometers, all designed to be attached to the humerus of a subject and for measuring the anterior elevation- extension (pitch), abduction-adduction (yaw) and internal-external rotation (roll) of the shoulder; and a processing unit at least suitable to process the received data of the gyroscopes to estimate the 3D range of angular velocity according to the equation (I). Further the invention also relates to a method for functionally assessing a shoulder by measuring and scoring angular velocities of a humerus, resulting in a score (RAV), angular velocities and accelerations of the humerus, resulting in a score (P); and the sum of moments of the humerus, resulting in a score (M).