SpineTracker consists of a wearable component—five small sensors that are placed vertically from the sacrum up the lumbar spine—and a mobile app, which communicates with the sensors to show the shape of your spine in real time, as you move.
This wearable enhances understanding of the concepts and techniques presented in the Gokhale Method. SpineTracker allows the student greater autonomy in judging their posture against their personal ideals, and measuring their progress in class.
Where Can I Find SpineTracker™?
Anyone can use SpineTracker under the guidance of a qualified Gokhale Method teacher. This wearable is unique in that it is not a standalone posture solution, but goes hand in hand with the education and training you receive with the Gokhale Method. Proper usage of SpineTracker requires a Gokhale Method teacher to help the student find and set posture ideals, to interpret the visuals in the app, and make healthy adjustments.
Top 5 Benefits of Using SpineTracker™
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What Our Users Say About SpineTracker™
- “It's essential, I believe, for tracking improvements over time.” ~Norman Crawford
- “It was motivating and encouraging to see how I could correct my posture by looking at the display as I moved.” ~Barbara Olinger
- “I’m not sure I would have understood what I was feeling in my body without the visual feedback. It gave me that aha! moment.” ~Laurie McKechnie
- “The immediate feedback as I moved a little this way or that was extremely helpful. I learned much faster because of it.” ~Jean Myers
- “The SpineTracker gives the student that ability to see their poor posture, see corrected posture, realize what corrected posture feels like, and gives that baseline so that they can return to the corrected position.” ~Laetitia Thompson
- “The SpineTracker is a promising tool to help find which muscles to use and which to relax in order to stack-sit, tall-stand and bend (hip-hinge) with a happy spine.” ~Julie Johnson
Participating Teachers
Publications
Comparing Muscle Activity and Spine Shape in Various Sitting Styles
Erik Peper, Björn Krüger, Esther Gokhale, and Richard Harvey
Back problems affect 80% of the population in the U.S. at some time during their lives, and each year 32 million Americans experience lower back pain at an estimated economic cost of 560-635 billion. One contributing factor for back pain is posture, and more particularly, lack of...
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Posture Classification based on a Spine Shape Monitoring System
Icxa Khandelwal, Katharina Stollenwerk, Björn Krüger, and Andreas Weber
Lower back pain is one of the leading causes for musculoskeletal disability throughout the world. A large percentage of the population suffers from lower back pain at some point in their life. One noninvasive approach to reduce back pain is postural modification which can be learned through...
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Analyzing Spinal Shape Changes During Posture Training Using a Wearable Device
Katharina Stollenwerk, Jonas Müller, André Hinkenjann, and Björn Krüger
Lower back pain is one of the most prevalent diseases in Western societies. A large percentage of European and American populations suffer from back pain at some point in their lives. One successful approach to address lower back pain is postural training, which can be supported by wearable...
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Comparing Muscle Activity and Spine Shape in Various Sitting Positions
Erik Peper, Björn Krüger, and Esther Gokhale
Lower back pain is experienced by approximately 70% of the world’s population, contributing to the worldwide burden of disease. Back pain is the largest single factor in the decline in worker productivity with economic cost estimates ranging between $200 to $600 billion per year in the...
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Evaluating an Accelerometer-based System for Spine Shape Monitoring
Katharina Stollenwerk, Johannes Müllers, Jonas Müller, André Hinkenjann, and Björn Krüger
In western societies a huge percentage of the population is suffering from some kind of back pain in their life. There are several approaches addressing back pain by postural modifications. Postural training and activity can be tracked by various wearable devices most of which are based on...
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