Analyzing Spinal Shape Changes During Posture Training Using a Wearable Device
- Lower back pain is one of the most prevalent diseases in Western societies. A large percentage of European and American populations suffer from back pain at some point in their lives. One successful approach to address lower back pain is postural training, which can be supported by wearable devices, providing real-time feedback about the user’s posture. In this work, we analyze the changes in posture induced by postural training. To this end, we compare snapshots before and after training, as measured by the Gokhale SpineTracker™. Considering pairs of before and after snapshots in different positions (standing, sitting, and bending), we introduce a feature space, that allows for unsupervised clustering. We show that resulting clusters represent certain groups of postural changes, which are meaningful to professional posture trainers.
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| Document Type: | Article |
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| Language: | English |
| Author: | Katharina Stollenwerk, Jonas Müller, André Hinkenjann, Björn Krüger |
| Parent Title (English): | Sensors |
| Volume: | 19 |
| Issue: | 16 |
| Article Number: | 3625 |
| ISSN: | 1424-8220 |
| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hbz:1044-opus-45856 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.3390/s19163625 |
| PMID: | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31434320 |
| Publisher: | MDPI |
| Place of publication: | Basel |
| Publishing Institution: | Hochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg |
| Date of first publication: | 2019/08/20 |
| Note: | The database of posture pairs used in this work is publicly available at: https://gitlab.com/re.search/PosturePairsDB19 |
| Keyword: | accelerometer; posture analysis; spinal posture; wearable sensor |
| Departments, institutes and facilities: | Fachbereich Informatik |
| Institute of Visual Computing (IVC) | |
| Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC): | 0 Informatik, Informationswissenschaft, allgemeine Werke / 00 Informatik, Wissen, Systeme / 005 Computerprogrammierung, Programme, Daten |
| Entry in this database: | 2019/08/23 |
| Licence (German): |  Creative Commons - CC BY - Namensnennung 4.0 International |
