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. 2021 Nov 3;21(21):7315. doi: 10.3390/s21217315

Table 1.

Summary of example applications of pose estimation in human health and performance across the lifespan.

Domain Behavior/Movement Pattern Tracked References
Motor and non-motor development Infant cruising (early locomotion) [36]
Infant play/general movement [37]
Infant writhing [51]
Human performance optimization,
injury prevention, and safety
Healthy repetitive movements [14]
Healthy gait [15,26,29,30,31,35,40]
Sign language [19]
Healthy running [27,35]
Bilateral squat [28]
Healthy gait/jumping/throwing [29]
Lifting [79,84]
Various unsafe working behaviors [80,81]
ACL injury risk [82,85,86]
Handcart pushing and pulling [83]
Ergonomic postural assessment [87]
Remotely-delivered rehabilitation [88,91,92,93]
Healthy finger movements [90]
Rehabilitation robotics [94,95,96,97]
Athletic training [100,101]
Swimming [102]
Clinical motor assessment Gait in Parkinson’s disease [25,33,123]
Knee kinetics in osteoarthritis [32]
Gait in cerebral palsy [34]
Simulated abnormal gait [72,74]
Gait in older adults [73]
Fall detection [76,77,78]
Dyskinesias in Parkinson’s disease [118,119,120]
Gait in older adults with dementia [124]
Timed up-and-go in Parkinson’s disease [125]