Clinical and Instrumental Methods for Posture Evaluation in Upright Standing and during Motor Tasks
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Applied Biosciences and Bioengineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 February 2025 | Viewed by 75
Special Issue Editors
Interests: functional anatomy; motion analysis; posture; movement disorder
Interests: neurology; clinical biomechanics; machine learning; movement disorders
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Dear Colleagues,
The evaluation of posture plays a crucial role in clinical and scientific fields in the functional description and diagnosis of different postural disorders; in clinical decision making; and in outcome assessments after treatment, during the monitoring of the disease, and/or athletic performance.
Different clinical and instrumental methods are used to assess posture during upright standing or motor tasks (walking, sit to stand, etc.).
Clinical evaluations are easily practicable but more susceptible to inter-operator variability, while instrumental ones are more reliable, objectively quantifying postural parameters.
Various instrumental methods (e.g., Rx, 3D motion analysis, etc.) can assess posture in three planes of space while standing or during walking, sit to stand, and athletic gestures. Moreover, other postural parameters, such as postural stability and plantar pressures, can be analysed in the laboratory environment (e.g., using pressure and force plates). Postural evaluations can also be performed outside the laboratory using wearable and portable technologies (e.g., IMU sensors).
Consequently, this Special Issue (“Clinical and Instrumental Methods for Posture Evaluation in Upright Standing and During Motor Tasks”) aims to stimulate discussion and publish recent research on human movement analyses and posture assessments, collecting the latest advancements and documenting innovative clinical and instrumental approaches to the posture evaluation of healthy and pathological populations.
Original articles, reviews, and case studies will be considered for publication.
Dr. Paolo De Blasiis
Dr. Mariano Serrao
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- posture
- posture evaluation
- 3D motion analysis
- kinematics
- gait analysis
- stereophotogrammetry
- X-ray
- pressure plate
- postural stability
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