What a school screening program could contribute in clinical research of idiopathic scoliosis aetiology

Disability and Rehabilitation

Volumn 30, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 752-762

  Grivas, Theodoros B ^a   Vasiliadis, Elias ^a   Savvidou, Olga D ^a   Triantafyllopoulos, George ^a  

^a THRIASIO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Greece)

Author keywords

Aetiology; Idiopathic scoliosis; Scoliosis school screening program

Indexed keywords

MELATONIN;

ANAMNESIS; BLINDNESS; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD CARE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CLUBFOOT; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FLATFOOT; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HANDEDNESS; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC SCOLIOSIS; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DISEASE; KYPHOSIS; MENARCHE; PATHOGENESIS; PATIENT REFERRAL; POLLUTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RIB MALFORMATION; SCHOOL HEALTH SERVICE; SCREENING TEST; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPINE FUSION; SPINE SURGERY; THORACIC CAVITY; TREATMENT INDICATION;

ADOLESCENT; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; CHILD; FEMALE; GREECE; HUMANS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; PREVALENCE; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION; SCHOOL HEALTH SERVICES; SCOLIOSIS;

EID: 42549152414     PISSN: 09638288     EISSN: 14645165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09638280802041086     Document Type: Review

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