Traction versus supine side-bending radiographs in determining flexibility: What factors influence these techniques?

Spine

Volumn 32, Issue 23, 2007, Pages 2604-2609

  Watanabe, Kota ^a,b   Kawakami, Noriaki ^a,c,d   Nishiwaki, Yuji ^b   Goto, Manabu ^a   Tsuji, Taichi ^a   Obara, Tetsuya ^a   Imagama, Shiro ^a   Matsumoto, Morio ^b  

^a Meijo Hospital   (Japan)

^b KEIO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c Meijo Hospital   (Japan)

^d NONE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Adolescent idiopathic scoliosis; Flexibility; Side bending radiograph; Traction radiograph

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC SCOLIOSIS; KYPHOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; STANDING; SUPINE POSITION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; ARTHROMETRY, ARTICULAR; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; KYPHOSIS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; POSTURE; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; SCOLIOSIS; THORACIC VERTEBRAE; TRACTION;

EID: 35848961628     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: 15281159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BRS.0b013e318158cbcb     Document Type: Article

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