Movement is something we see with our eyes, but scholarship begins with measuring it.
In rehabilitation practice, we observe people’s movement and function every day. We judge whether walking has improved, whether an arm can be raised higher, whether balance has returned, whether a person can get dressed unaided, and whether speech has become clearer, and we adjust our interventions accordingly. Yet much of that judgment still rests on the observer’s eye and experience. It is not unusual for results to differ from one assessor to another for the same person.
Over the past few years, technologies that quantify movement with video and sensors have rapidly entered practical use. Motion analysis that was once possible only with expensive laboratory equipment can now be attempted in clinical and community settings as well. But a discipline does not establish itself simply because a technology has appeared. What should be measured, whether the numbers truly reflect the function in question, whether they are reproducible, and how they change clinical judgment must each be studied in their own right.
Why We Are Building This Society
When we examined academic societies in Korea, we found no society for the analysis of movement and function rooted in clinical rehabilitation. Rehabilitation-related societies were divided by profession, and none of them dealt directly with motion analysis or artificial intelligence. There are several societies in the digital and artificial intelligence fields, but they are centered on physicians and industry, and they are distant from the problems that clinicians face in practice every day.
Filling a gap is not our purpose. Rather, the founding members shared the judgment that people who work with movement need a place to come together and sharpen their methods.
What Kind of Society We Aim to Be
We intend to uphold three principles.
- We are open to every profession. We have written the Articles of Association so that anyone working in health care, anyone engaged in research or education in a related field, and anyone who supports the purposes of the Society can become a Regular Member. No particular license is required.
- We make our results public. We have stated in the Articles of Association that the results of research and education are to be shared widely, not confined to the membership. We believe that is the reason a society exists.
- We make our accounts public. Officers receive no remuneration, and all income belongs to the Society. The amount of donations raised and the record of their use are published on this site within 4 months after the end of each business year.