View full-text article in PMC J Neuroeng Rehabil. 2022 Jul 28;19:83. doi: 10.1186/s12984-022-01053-z Search in PMC Search in PubMed View in NLM Catalog Add to search Copyright and License information © The Author(s) 2022 Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data. PMC Copyright notice Table 5. Rules of the RB classification method to determine the different categories of compensation: Trunk Forward (TF), Y=0; Trunk Rotation (TR), Y=1; Shoulder Elevation (SE), Y=2; Other (O), Y=3. For normal movements Y=4 Scenario Rules Trunk forward (TF)/Trunk backward (O) S1 Y^=0ifΔHt>thTF3ifΔHt<-thTF4otherwise S2 and S3 Y^=0ifatp81,p11,p1t>thTF∧Δxtp2/5t,p1t>03ifatp81,p11,p1t>thTF∧Δxtp2/5t,p1t<04otherwise Trunk rotation (TR) and Shoulder elevation (SE) S1 Y^=2if(1)at(p2/51,p11,p2/5t)>thSE∧(2)at(p5/21,p11,p5/2t)<thSE1if(1)>thSE∧(2)>thSE∧(1)-(2)≈01∧2if(1)>thSE∧(2)>thSE∧(1)-(2)≫04otherwise Trunk rotation (TR) S2 Y^=1ifΔxt(p2/5t,p1t)>thTR4otherwise S3 Y^=1if|Δdt(p2t,p5t)|>thTR4otherwise Shoulder elevation (SE) S2 and S3 Y^=2ifΔyt(p2/5t,p1t)>thSE4otherwise Trunk tilt (O) S1 Y^=3ifat(p81,p11,p1t)>thO4otherwise S2 and S3 Y^=3if|ΔHt|>thTI4otherwise