Leg-arm length ratios correlate with severity of apical vertebral rotation in girls after school screening for adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS): A dynamic pathomechanism in the initiation of the deformity?

Studies in Health Technology and Informatics

Volumn 140, Issue , 2008, Pages 189-193

  Burwell, R G ^a   Aujla, R K ^a   Kirby, A S ^a   Dangerfield, P H ^b   Moulton, A ^c   Freeman, B J C ^d   Cole, A A ^a   Polak, F J ^a   Pratt, R K ^a   Webb, J K ^a  

^a QUEEN S MEDICAL CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^c KING S MILL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^d ROYAL ADELAIDE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Arm. intermembral index; Idiopathic scoliosis; Leg; Pathogenesis; Spine

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; SYSTEMS ENGINEERING;

ADOLESCENT IDIOPATHIC SCOLIOSIS; ARM. INTERMEMBRAL INDEX; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEMS; IDIOPATHIC SCOLIOSIS; PATHOGENESIS; SPINE; STRUCTURAL ASYMMETRY; VERTEBRAL ROTATIONS;

ROTATION;

ADOLESCENT; ARM; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; GAIT; HUMAN; LEG; MASS SCREENING; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RISK FACTOR; SCOLIOSIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPINE DISEASE;

ADOLESCENT; ARM; BIOMECHANICS; CHILD; FEMALE; GAIT; HUMANS; LEG; MASS SCREENING; MOVEMENT; RISK FACTORS; SCOLIOSIS; SEX FACTORS; SPINAL CURVATURES;

EID: 54049131266     PISSN: 09269630     EISSN: 18798365     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.3233/978-1-58603-888-5-189     Document Type: Conference Paper

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