Clasped position for measurement of sagittal spinal alignment

European Spine Journal

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 782-786

  Suzuki, Hidekazu ^a   Endo, Kenji ^a   Mizuochi, Jun ^a   Kobayashi, Hiroto ^a   Tanaka, Hidetoshi ^a   Yamamoto, Kengo ^a  

^a TOKYO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Arm position; Clasped position; Sagittal spinal alignment; Sagittal vertical axis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLASPED POSITION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FOREARM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERRATER RELIABILITY; INTRARATER RELIABILITY; LORDOSIS; LUMBAR LORDOTIC ANGLE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PATIENT POSITIONING; PELVIC ANGLE; PELVIC INCIDENCE; PELVIC LORDOSIS ANGLE; PELVIC TILT; PELVIS; POSITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; SPINE MOBILITY; SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; VERTEBRAL CANAL STENOSIS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; LORDOSIS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT POSITIONING; POSTURE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SPINAL STENOSIS;

EID: 77954534721     PISSN: 09406719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00586-010-1352-7     Document Type: Article

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