Is the labyrinthine dysfunction a causative factor in idiopathic scoliosis?

Studies in Health Technology and Informatics

Volumn 91, Issue , 2002, Pages 7-9

  Kapetanos, G ^a,b   Potoupnis, M ^a   Dangilas, Ang ^a   Markou, K ^a   Pournaras, J ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b 'G Papanikolaou' Hospital   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HARTMANN; IDIOPATHIC SCOLIOSIS; LATERALIZATION; MEAN AGES; MOTOR CORTEX; NORMAL CONTROLS;

OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; CALORIC VESTIBULAR TEST; ELECTRONYSTAGMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; INNER EAR; INNER EAR DISEASE; MOTONEURON; MOTOR CORTEX; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SCOLIOSIS;

ADOLESCENT; CALORIC TESTS; EAR, INNER; ELECTRONYSTAGMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; LABYRINTH DISEASES; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR NEURONS; POSTURE; SCOLIOSIS;

EID: 16544384053     PISSN: 09269630     EISSN: 18798365     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.3233/978-1-60750-935-6-7     Document Type: Conference Paper

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