La valutazione della funzionalità osteomuscolare residua tramite la analisi computerizzata del movimento nei lavoratori del comparto edile: specificità e problematicità [Evaluation of residual osteo muscular function using computerised movement analysis for building sector workers: Specificity and technical problems]

Occupational Health Doctors active in building sector firms frequently have to evaluate residual workers' osteomuscular function in patients coming back to work after an accident happened during work time or free time. Definition of their specific individual work suitability is usually carried out utilizing semeiotic tests in which subjective evaluation of every single Medical Doctor is real important in definition of final results and this fact can cause legal controversies. In our research we describe the application of computerised movement analysis on 10 workers of building sector. In every patient examined this technical method has been able to study objectively the tridimensional ranges of motion of most important osteomuscular districts. The possibility to have an objective evaluation of residual osteomuscular function has a relevant importance both in definition of workers' work suitability at the moment in which they start again their activities and in possible future legal conflicts. © PI-ME, Pavia 2012.