OBTAINING MEASUREMENTS OF THE ELBOW ARTICULATION USING MEDIAPIPE

Abstract

Biomechanics is a science that applies physics principles for analyze human body’s movements, in areas like sports, physiotherapy and ergonomics. Inside physiotherapy has the objective of prevent lesions, verify diseases, fractures analysis, protetics, deformations analysis, and evaluate the progress in patient’s recuperation. For this the knowledge of specific angles between some articulations allows to understand how these body’s parts behave. This article has as focus the initial and specific study of the angle formed between arm and forearm in the elbow articulation. This articulation is of interest when verifying lesions that can affect the movements, like Annular Ligaments lesions. Currently the measurements are done with the use of a goniometer, a manual tool that can be affected by values incertities. The proposition is to use a computational vision tool, with artificial intelligence supplied by MediaPipe the generate results in real time, to simplify the data collection for sector professionals, The angles results visualisation in a more stable manner, compared to manual methods, and independent of the professional conducting the measurements. Will be use only on a computer or tablet with a camera, connected to the Internet.