A - Human Necessities – 61 – B
Patent
A - Human Necessities
61
B
A61B 5/103 (2006.01) A63B 24/00 (2006.01)
Patent
CA 2341116
The present invention relates to a method of acquiring biomechanical position data for use in postural analysis, the method comprising the steps of: a) selecting a plurality of marker positions referenced with respect to the anatomy of a patient by one of: skin surface features having minimal variability from one patient to the next; and skeletal features palpable from a skin surface of the patient; b) attaching a scanable marker on the patient at each of the marker positions, the step of attaching including palpating the patient to define at least some of the marker positions; c) instructing the patient to stand relaxed and in normal posture; and d) scanning the markers attached to the patient to obtain position data for each of the marker positions. The present invention also relates to a method for calculating postural deviation values in a patient comprising the steps of: a) obtaining position data identifying a position in space of body segment of the patient while standing relaxed and in normal posture, the body segments comprising head-shoulders, shoulders-pelvis, pelvis-hips, hips-knees and knees-ankles; b) obtaining weight data of the patient; c) calculating vertical and horizontal plumb line positions value using the position data; d) calculating for at least some of the body segments an angle of deviation value and distance of deviation value with respect to the plumb line position value using the position data. The present invention further relates to a method of providing posture health care using a distributed system, the method comprising the steps of: a) obtaining personal data of a patient, the personal data including weight, height, gender and activity data of the patient, and obtaining posture anatomical reference position data of the patient at a biomechanical measurement station; b) processing the personal and position data using data stored in a remote central database to obtain preliminary postural deviation assessment data; c) providing the preliminary postural deviation assessment data to the health-care practitioner and the patient; d) obtaining corrected postural deviation assessment data from the health-care practitioner and the patient; and e) modifying the data stored in the central database using the corrected data.
Guimond Sylvain
Lombardi Alfonso
Mcfarland David H.
Normand Martin C.
Biotonix Inc.
Ogilvy Renault Llp/s.e.n.c.r.l.,s.r.l.
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