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The treatment of scoliosis is based on physical exercises with light and medium severity of deformation. The effectiveness of the exercises is assessed by means of Cobb angle variation. In order to compute the values of the Cobb angle, a mathematical model of the spine is generated. A set of eight sensors, type accelerometer, is attached to the vertebrae in significant points of the column. Its shape is approximated with a high degree polynomial, which allows the determination of the inflection points and Cobb angles. The study consists in assessment of three exercises frequently used in treatment protocols.
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Vutan, AM., Gruescu, C.M., Ciupe, V., Margineanu, D., Lovasz, EC. (2019). Effectiveness of Physical Exercises in the Treatment of Scoliosis - Mathematical Approach. In: Carbone, G., Ceccarelli, M., Pisla, D. (eds) New Trends in Medical and Service Robotics. Mechanisms and Machine Science, vol 65. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00329-6_4
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