The influence of seat adjustment and a thoraco-lumbar-sacral orthosis on the distribution of body-seat pressure in children with scoliosis and pelvic obliquity

Disability and Rehabilitation

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 21-26

  Shoham, Yehudit ^a   Meyer, Shirley ^b   Katz Leurer, Michal ^b,c   Weiss, Patricia L ^d  

^a Israeli Ministry of Education   (Israel)

^b Alyn Orthopaedic Hospital and Rehabilitation Centre for Physically Handicapped Children Israel   (Israel)

^c TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASE; ORTHOSIS; PELVIC DISEASE; PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACRUM; SCOLIOSIS; SEAT; SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; THORACOLUMBAR SPINE; WILCOXON SIGNED RANKS TEST;

ADOLESCENT; BIOMECHANICS; BRACES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMAN ENGINEERING; HUMANS; MALE; PELVIS; POSTURE; PRESSURE; SCOLIOSIS;

EID: 0742271664     PISSN: 09638288     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09638280410001645940     Document Type: Article

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