Continuous monitoring of rehabilitation in patients with scoliosis using automatic laser scanning

Medical practitioners have traditionally used manual anthropometric meters and X-Ray to monitor the development and treatment of orthopedic diseases as scoliosis. With the disadvantage of generating uncertainty results in the manual methods, also X-Ray radiation can be the cause of several diseases after a long exposure. This is the reason why we developed a new method, noninvasive, without harmful radiation to human beings, assisting in monitoring the treatment of orthopedic diseases such as scoliosis. The following article presents the theoretical performance and experimental results of measurements already made with the new proposed system.