Engineering anthropometry of employment rehabilitation centre clients

Comparison of Anthropometric Dimensions in Healthy and Disabled Individuals

“…Similar to what happens in the aging process, the deficit tonicity of postural muscles increases back hypnosis and simultaneously decreases cartilage thickness between 2 vertebrates, which finally results in shortened sitting and back height (17). Other studies showed that declining hip and tight muscles decreased body height among disabled people (23).…”

“…In the study of Nowak et al, forward reach was about 30 cm more than disabled people and reach forward in healthy males in Bolestad and Monica studies was 84.7 and 83.3 cm, respectively (14)(15)(16). This dimension is applied to determine maximum barriers distance, controls and tools surrounding Due to the usage of sitting height and eye height applied to design work station units and control panels and sit back height in work places, and determination of reaches in adjusting barriers distance, controls and equipment's near the worktable (1,3,7,8,17), differences in the body dimension of healthy and disabled people results in differences in work place size. Failure to consider these differences when designing a work place causes incompatibility with individual features and results in dissatisfaction, stress, and musculoskeletal disorders in disabled cases (18,19), due to the fact that they have more physical requirements, compared to healthy people (8).…”

“…Studies showed that disorder in joints performance, ligament, and neural-muscle system in disabled people results in deformation of parts of the body and finally results in complete deformation of body dimensions. As a result leads to a change in body size dimension (17)(18)(19)(20). The other restricting factor of body growth is restriction of mobility activity, pain-induced stresses, lack of rehabilitation facilities, and residence in clinical and rehabilitation centers for disabled individuals (21).…”

Virtual fitting trials in ‘design for all’

“…Those studies that are specific to the disabled or aged are often limited in sample size or relate to very specific conditions (e.g. 78 UK women aged 70 and older [13], USA older males [14], 502 lower extremity disabled, 758 aged 65 and older, UK [15], 11 post-polio paraplegics [16], 62 spinal cord injuries, Canada [17], 822 older males and females, The Netherlands [18], 61 post-polio spinal cord injuries, India [19], 203 injuries and deformation of the spine, upper limbs, lower limbs and other, UK [20], 77 systemic deformity, motor organ diseases, Poland [21] and 170 spinal injury, cerebral palsy, muscular dystrophy, Poland [22]). Added to this problem of quality and quantity of data available is its often limited applicability to practical design problems.…”

Design and development of anthropometric device for the standardization of sizes of knee-ankle-foot orthoses

“…The data generated through anthropometry form the basis for various studies and benefit the society at large. The design specifications of workplaces have been drawn in the past for the employees based on the anthropometric data obtained on their physical ability and limitations [2]. Similarly, assessment of human obesity through the measurement of body composition has also been carried out [3].…”