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Fig. 10.5 Rotation of scanned body model.

Proper body posture gravity line passes through the middle of all vertically aligned
joints. Gravity line is presented by a drawn vertical line that passes through body grav-
ity center located in second sacral vertebra, which connects the middle point between
the eyes, the center of the chin, the tip of the sternum, the center of the pubic area, and
the middle point between the ankles, Fig. 10.6. The line that connects the middle point
on the upper part of the ear, the middle of the shoulder, the hips, the knee and the ankle
joint was analyzed in the sagittal plane (Palmer and Epler, 1998). With proper posture

Fig. 10.6 Body balance analysis in frontal plane and body posture assessment in sagittal plane.