Biomechanical scale for dynamic human body posture analysis

Dynamic monitoring of patient body weight distribution in biomechanics laboratory can provide useful information for research and diagnosis purposes. The examinee can be subjected to different conditions, either standing still or doing a set of predefined exercises. Human locomotor system maintains the body balance in a complex manner, thus resulting in very small weight distribution perturbations which can provide a better insight in the patient state and serve as an excellent practical diagnostic tool. This paper describes an implementation of biomechanical scale designed to enable a high resolution dynamic body weight distribution measurement, along with monitoring of the angle and the distance between feet in the real-time.