If I type "notation for systems of physical therapy" into Google the top results I get are Eshkol-Wachman Movement Notation, Benesh Movement Notation and Laban Movement Analysis.
They are system made by dancers. They are general enough that they can also be used for describing non dancing movement.
In case I have missed something, do you know of a general system used by physical therapists which an controlled vocabularies that available online?
There a lot of money that goes in diagnosis equipment like fMRI"s, but not much for recording human movement in a analyzable way. Computer game designers who worked at Microsoft did work on the issue for kinect, but kinect isn't really designed to be used for research purposes.
You can"t throw 10,000 dollar worth of high resolution camera's at it to get clearer data. It would be nice if there would be open source bioinformatics software available for tasks like that. I think we could learn a lot about how humans work by analyzing data like that instead of investing so much money into fMRI scanners and gene sequencing.
not much for recording human movement in a analyzable way
Look at motion capture for computer animation, both for games and for movies?
I was just wondering. Human minds are messed up in 1001 ways, but are there a few rational principles that most people already have down? Of course, the answers to this question are probably so extremely obvious that I haven't even considered them. But I ask all the same.