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Activities in Physical Education and Sport
2015, Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 30-32
RESEARCH OF INNOVATIVE SYSTEM ABILITIES
FOR POSTURAL ANALYSIS AND POSTURAL DISORDERS
ASSESSMENT
(Professional paprer)
Daniela Popova, Stamenka Mitova and Mariya Gramatikova
South-West university “Neofit Rilski”- Blagoevgrad
Faculty „Public Health and Sports”
Department of “Physicaltherapy” Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria
Abstract
The purpose of this report are the abilities of innovative system for postural analysis to be examined
and analyzed, which will provide optimization of the functional researches and will gave opportunity for
early changes diagnosis and deformations in musculoskeletal system in children with postural disorders.
With research of abilities by innovative system and introduce it, we will help with early diagnosis, which
have decisive significance for the prophylactic and the treatment of the postural disorders in the children(
bad posture, spinal deformity). Also significant is the frequency of postural disorders in people with active
creative age (pain syndrome, disc disease, inflammatory and degenerative joint disease and others), which
leads to disablement and serious loss to the health system. Timely and qualitative functional research and
treatment in these clinical conditions will have positive, scientific, economic and social effect.
Keywords: diagnosis of spinal deformation, treatment of the postural disorders, children, prevention,
improper posture, foot, LUX PODOSCOPE, LUX POSTURAL ANALYZER, PODOSTABIL
INTRODUCTION
Postural disorders are have been known from the
doctors since the Old Ages. They continue to be one
of the most complicated nosologies in orthopedics at
the present day. The researches over the frequency and
distribution of the spinal deformities show permament
growth of the values, while the age limit of the affected
children falls down in the same time. Complexity of the
problem is determined not only from the widely distribution, striking the child’s organism, but subsequent disorders in all organs and systems functions. This define
actuality and significance of the problem.
Early detection, correct diagnosis, adequate treatment and rehabilitation, prophylactic, proper active
physical regime, can prevent the unfavorable consequences by postural disorders and spinal deformation
and ensure normal working of the growing up organism.
The seriousness of the problem on bad posture at the
children and adolescents due to the fact that opportunely
correction of the static deformation is missing, which
is prepossessing factor for structural changes development in the spine and diseases of internal organs, which
also are reason for a reduced disability in middle age
(Crais, 1999; Vasilyeva & Mikhailov, 2002; Abolishin
& Tsitskishvili (Крейз, 1999; Васильева & Михайлов,
2002; Аболишин & Цицкишвили, 2006). Periodical
control to the posture is invariably requirement for deviations detection. Many authors report that early begin
of conservative treatment can prevent heavy deformation progress and surgery intervention to be avoid. (Haher, Merola, Zipnick & Gorup, 1995); (Halm, Castro,
Jerosch & Winkelmann, 1995).
For diagnosis placement and rehabilitation treatment define is performed skreening research including: case history, analyze, palpation, centimeters of the
thighs and plantogram overview to the feet, shortened
muscles was tested, flexibility of the spine was studied
and special tests was applied. Many authors assign significant difference in the assessment of the bad posture
and spinal deformation in the children for the lack of
unitary research methodology and clear standard for diagnosis. As result of this, frequency of the pathological
deviations at adolescents varies from 1.8% to 87%. All
of this blurs considerably the standard border and pathology and clearly distinguish the diagnosis in children
at risk wasn’t made.
Purpose of the report are the abilities of innovative
system for postural analysis to be examined and analyzed, which will provide optimization of the functional
researches and will gave opportunity for early changes
RESEARCH OF INNOVATIVE SYSTEM ...
diagnosis and deformations in musculoskeletal system
in children with postural disorders.
In our country potentialities of hardware systems for
postural analysis and posture assessment aren’t studied
and publications for the problem are missing. In the international practice this system is used in hospitals, rehabilitation clinics, recovery centers in Italy, Switzerland,
Slovenia, Czech Republic, Kuwait and other countries.
This system was included in Guidelines of the council
on Chiropractic Practice (CCP),was recommended from
International Scientific Society on Scoliosis Orthopedic and Rehabilitation Treatment (SOSORT) and from
Scoliosis Research Society(SRS). The hardware system
provides possibility for precision and objectivity by the
diagnostics and tracing the results from the applied treatment in many pathologies. The introduction of the system for postural analysis in the physiotherapy practice
will let the creation of database for researches and define
standards for posture normalizing (which don’t exist).
Posture analysis system, made up of a number of units
and a software that makes it possible to acquire images
for body part measurements, as well as information
concerning weight distribution, barycentre and stability
of the patient being examined. The basic units are:
“Podostabil”, “Podata™” Stabilometric Footboard and
“Lux Postural Analyzer”. In addition, a bilaminate Desk
Top with a plexiglas column for positioning the camera
and a jointing kit for connecting the units are supplied.
Parameters of professional posture analysis
system –set with software and hardware.
Elements of the system:
A. Software.
Specialized software for treatment, archiving and analysis of patient information allowing:
Shooting, treatment, measurements and calculations, comparison and analysis of photography
images for spine segments and the foot, in contact with abutment surface to define the deformation’s type with the help of 2 cameras and
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markers.
Database with record and medical history of the
patient
DVD with instructions
A. Hardware
1. LUX PODOSCOPE
It is illuminated on each side by strong lights,
which provides a visual image of the plantar
surface of the foot and a representation of
pressure distribution.
Dimensions 46 x 55 x 33 H cm
Capacity 135 kg
2. LUX POSTURAL ANALYZER:
It is a device typically used for analysing
posture in the frontal, posterior and
lateral planes.
The device consists of a
bilaminate footboard, two aluminium side
bars, measuring indicators and sliders
with strings for postural reference and an
adjustable
mirror on top.
Dimensions 80 x 72 x 225 H cm
Capacity 135 kg
3. PODOSTABIL 2
Bilaminate base,aluminium side bars and
wooden handrail.
Dimensions 71 x 128 x 126 H cm
Capacity 135 kg
CONCLUSION
Implementation of the system will provide new competencies to research the correlation between the routine and hardware methods for posture assessment.
Scientific research will be enriched trough objective
tracing on the results from the conducted physiotherapy treatment.
Potential for prophylaxis and treatment of postural disorders and spine deformations, pain syndromes,
injuries, musculoskeletal dysfunctions will be extended, which is important for the physiotherapy
practice.
Improving the quality of the functional research and
treatment in these clinical conditions will have undisputed positive scientific, economic and social effect.
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Correspondence:
Daniela Popova
South-west University „Neofit Rilski“-Blagoevgrad
Faculty „Public Health and Sports”
Department of „Physical therapy“
Str. „Ivan Mihailov“ 66, 27000 Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria
E-mail: dany.popva @ abv.bg
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