A - Human Necessities – 61 – B
Patent
A - Human Necessities
61
B
354/22
A61B 5/11 (2006.01)
Patent
CA 1325679
ABSTRACT OF THE DISCLOSURE A method and equipment are disclosed, which are especially designed for evaluating the flexibility of the cervical portion of the spine of a patient in any plane and thus detecting any discrepancy from a "normal" response that would help a medical doctor to establish and/or confirm a cervical pain diagnosis. The equipement comprises a string of separate, dot-sized skin-markers which preferably consist of small LEDs fired under computer control, that are fixed onto the skin of the patient's back in the midline of his spine from at least thoracic vertebra T5 up to the skull. Other skin markers are detachably fixed in a bilateral and symmetrical manner on the skin of the patient's back on the crests of his scapulae, and on the rear of the patient's head. A visualization equipment which preferably comprises a pair of cameras spaced apart from each other, is used to track, monitor and record the relative positions of all of the skin-markers on the back, neck and head of the patient as he flexes his neck in his sagittal and/or frontal plane(s). The so recorded position of the skin-markers are processed to measure the scapula motion and evaluate its contribution to the neck motion; to measure the cervical spine motion; and to extract from the last measurement the intersegment and segmental mobilities of the cervical spine. All of these data as well as others such as the neck velocity, the percentage of cervical elongation, etc..., can then be compared with each other and with results obtained from a group of "normal" patients, to determine any discrepancy or singularity.
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Diagnospine Research Inc.
Robic
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