Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics
Volume 30, Issue 2 , Pages 124-129 , February 2007

Validity of a Computer Postural Analysis to Estimate 3-Dimensional Rotations and Translations of the Head From Three 2-Dimensional Digital Images

  • Tadeusz J. Janik, PhD, MSE

      Affiliations

    • Research Consultant, CompMath R&C, Hunstville, Ala
    • Corresponding Author InformationSubmit requests for reprints to: Tadeusz J. Janik, PhD, MSE, CompMath R&C, 121 Todd Whitt Ln, Huntsville, AL 35806
    • ,
  • Deed E. Harrison, DC

      Affiliations

    • Vice President of Chiropractic BioPhysics Nonprofit, Inc, Evanston, Wyo
    • Private Practice, Elko, Nev
    • ,
  • Rene Cailliet, MD

      Affiliations

    • Clinical Professor, Section Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Department Medicine, University of California at Los Angeles, Calif
    • ,
  • Donald D. Harrison, PhD, DC, MSE

      Affiliations

    • President of Chiropractic BioPhysics Nonprofit, Inc, Evanston, Wyo, USA
    • Affiliated Professor, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Canada
    • ,
  • Martin C. Normand, PhD, DC

      Affiliations

    • Director of the Chiropractic Program, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Canada
    • ,
  • Denise L. Perron, DC

      Affiliations

    • Private practice, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Received 21 July 2006 ,Revised 6 August 2006 ,Accepted 8 September 2006.

References 

  1. Gavrila DM. The visual analysis of human movement: a survey. Comput Vis Image Underst. 1999;73:82–98
  2. Horiguchi C. Body line scanner. The development of a new 3-D measurement and reconstruction system. Int Arch Photogramm Remote Sens. 1998;32:421–429
  3. Klette R, Schlüns K, Koschan A. Computer vision: three-dimensional data from images. New York: Springer; 1998;
  4. Ma Y, Soatto S, Košecká J, Sastry SS. An invitation to 3-D vision. From images to geometric models. New York: Springer; 2004;
  5. Griegel-Morris P, Larson K, Mueller-Klaus K, Oatis CA. Incidence of common postural abnormalities in the cervical, shoulder, and thoracic regions and their association with pain in two age groups of health subjects. Phys Ther. 1992;72:425–431
  6. Braun BL, Amundson LR. Quantitative assessment of head and shoulder posture. Arch Phys Med Rehabil. 1989;70:322–329
  7. Harrison AL, Barry-Greb T, Wojtowicz G. Clinical measurement of head and shoulder posture variables. J Orthop Sports Phys Ther. 1996;23:353–361
  8. Zonnenberg AJJ, Van C, Maanen J, Elvers JWH, Oostendorp RAB. Intra/interrater reliability of measurements on body posture photographs. J Craniomandibular Pract. 1996;14:326–331
  9. Panjabi MM, White AA, Brand RA. A note on defining body parts configurations. J Biomech. 1974;7:385–390
  10. Remondino F. In: 3-D reconstruction of human skeleton from single images or monocular video sequences. Lectures notes in computer science. New York: Springer; 2003;p. 100–107
  11. Remodino F. 3-D reconstruction of static human body shape from image sequence. Comput Vis Image Underst. 2004;93:65–85
  12. Grimmer K. Measurement of cervical excursion angles in a treatment setting: a pilot study. Physiotherapy. 1993;79:451–456
  13. Ordway NR, Seymour R, Donelson RG, Hojnowski L, Lee E, Edwards WT. Cervical sagittal range-of-motion analysis using three methods. Cervical range-of-motion device, 3space, and radiography. Spine. 1997;22:501–508
  14. Walmsley RP, Kimber P, Kulham E. The effect of initial head position on active cervical axial rotation range of motion in two age populations. Spine. 1996;21:2435–2442
  15. Lai H, Moriya H, Goto S, Takahashi K, Yamagata M, Tamaki T. Three-dimensional motion analysis of the upper cervical spine during axial rotation. Spine. 1993;18:2388–2392
  16. Cocchiarelli L, Andersson GBJ. In: Guides to the evaluation of permanent impairment. 5th ed.. Chicago: AMA Press; 2001;p. 375
  17. Norton BJ, Ellison JB. Reliability and concurrent validity of the Metrecom for length measurements on inanimate objects. Phys Ther. 1993;73:266–274

 Funding sources: Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Canada; CBP Nonprofit, Inc, Evanston, Wyo.

PII: S0161-4754(06)00328-9

doi: 10.1016/j.jmpt.2006.12.005

Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics
Volume 30, Issue 2 , Pages 124-129 , February 2007

Article Tools

* Image Usage & Resolution