USE OF SOFTWARES FOR POSTURE ASSESSMENT: INTEGRATIVE REVIEW

To carry out an integrative literature review on the postural analysis softwares available today. It is an integrative-narrative review of qualitative and methodological nature performed during April-July 2014. As inclusion criteria, the articles should be bibliographical or original research and available with full access. At first, we proceeded to the identification of the keywords for the softwares related to postural assessment commonly used in the health field, in such case "posture", "software", and "postural assessment". The search was narrowed by publication date from 2002 to 2014. Through the information acquired from the articles and from the software developers, information on 12 programs that assist the postural evaluation were obtained - Alcimage, All Body Scan 3D, Aplob, APPID, Biotonix, Corporis Pro, Fisimetrix, Fisiometer Posturograma, Physical Fisio, Physio Easy, Posture Print and SAPO. However, only one tool has more information and studies, namely SAPO. There are many postural analysis softwares available on the internet today, however, these are quite disparate in relation to possible answers and are still poorly widespread as research tools.

本研究针对当前可用的姿势分析软件（postural analysis softwares）开展整合性文献综述（integrative literature review）。本次综述为兼具定性与方法论属性的整合叙事性综述（integrative-narrative review），实施时间为2014年4月至7月。纳入标准（inclusion criteria）为：文献需为书目性研究或原创研究，且可获取全文。研究初期，我们确定了健康领域常用姿势评估相关软件的关键词，即“姿势”（posture）、“软件”（software）及“姿势评估”（postural assessment）。本次检索将发表日期限定为2002年至2014年。通过从文献及软件开发方处获取的信息，共收集到12款用于辅助姿势评估（postural evaluation）的软件，分别为Alcimage、All Body Scan 3D、Aplob、APPID、Biotonix、Corporis Pro、Fisimetrix、Fisiometer Posturograma、Physical Fisio、Physio Easy、Posture Print及SAPO。然而，仅有SAPO一款工具拥有较为丰富的相关信息与研究成果。当前互联网上可获取的姿势分析软件数量较多，但各类软件在可输出的结果维度上差异显著，且作为研究工具的普及度仍较低。