Relationships between prolonged neck/shoulder pain and sitting spinal posture in male and female adolescents

Manual Therapy

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 321-329

  Straker, Leon M ^a   O'Sullivan, Peter B ^a   Smith, Anne J ^a   Perry, Mark C ^a  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Adolescents; Gender; Neck pain; Neck shoulder pain; Sitting posture

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; CERVICAL SPINE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIGITAL IMAGING; DISEASE DURATION; FEMALE; GENDER; HABIT; HUMAN; LORDOSIS; LUMBAR SPINE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOTION ANALYSIS SYSTEM; NECK PAIN; PELVIS; PHOTOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR; SEX RATIO; SHOULDER PAIN; SITTING; STUDENT T TEST; THORACIC SPINE;

ADOLESCENT; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NECK PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; POSTURE; PREVALENCE; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; SHOULDER PAIN; SPINE;

EID: 67349100123     PISSN: 1356689X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.math.2008.04.004     Document Type: Article

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