SCREENING DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUE FOR LOCOMOTOR DISORDERS Russian patent published in 2014 - IPC A61B5/103 

FIELD: medicine.

SUBSTANCE: invention refers to medicine, traumatology and orthopaedics, paediatrics and neuropathology. The method involves the screening diagnosis of locomotor disorders in children and adults: postural disorders, spinal and limb deformities, patient's status monitoring, an objective assessment of the effectiveness of the conservative and surgical treatment. The method involves taking the patient's images in different planes and projections, determining dimensions, directions of the axes, borders, asymmetry of the body regions and limbs; that is followed by comparing the obtained data to the normal values taking into account the patient's age and previous medical history; the respective disorder is diagnosed, if observing any deviations. This provides taking the patient's digital images in 3D scanning in the frontal, sagittal, and horizontal planes, and functional images in flexion, bowing back, bending, regional rotation of the body and limbs in the environment ensuring calculating the absolute dimensions of the body and its regions. A computer is used to carry out a quantitative analysis and measurement of the dimensions, directions of the axes, borders, asymmetry of the body regions and limbs and to calculate their linear dimensions, areas, profiles, and to assess the length changes of the region, its motion and a range of motion.

EFFECT: method provides the early screening diagnosis of the locomotor disorders, increases the assessment accuracy and reliability of the existing disorders, ensures the integrated examination of the individual's musculoskeletal system, and is easy to use.

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