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However, a limited number of studies have assessed the potential of the Kinect V2 for motor evaluations. In this paper, a simple biomechanical protocol has been developed, in order to assess the performances of healthy people and patients, during daily-life reaching movements, with focus on some of the patients\u2019 common compensatory strategies. The assessment considers shoulder range of motion, elbow range of motion, trunk compensatory strategies, and movement smoothness. Seventy-seven healthy people and twenty post-stroke patients participated to test the biomechanical assessment. The testing protocol included four different experimental conditions: (1) dominant limb and (2) non-dominant limb of 77 healthy people, and (3) the more impaired limb of 20 post-stroke hemiparetic patients, and (4) the less-impaired limb of 11 patients (subgroup of the original 20). Biomechanical performances of the four groups were compared. Results showed that the dominant and non-dominant limbs of healthy people had comparable performances (p &gt; 0.05). On the contrary, condition (3) showed statistically significant differences between the healthy dominant\/non-dominant limb and the less-affected limb in hemiparetic patients, for all parameters of assessment (p &lt; 0.001). In some cases, the less-affected limb of the patients also showed statistical differences (p &lt; 0.05), with respect to the healthy people. 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