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This figure demonstrates the six degrees of freedom needed to describe position and orientation (pose) of the human body, with the red dot indicating the location (translation) of the segment center of mass and blue arrows indicating rotation in three planes. (A) The reference standing posture, (B) thigh segment adduction/abduction, (C) thigh segment flexion/extension, (D) thigh segment rotation about the longitudinal axis.
