Assessment of intrasubject reliability of radiographic craniocervical posture of asymptomatic female subjects

Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 27-32

  Gadotti, Inae C ^a   Magee, David ^b  

^a FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Neck; Posture; Radiography; Reproducibility of Results

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASYMPTOMATIC DISEASE; ATLANTOOCCIPITAL JOINT; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; BODY MASS; BODY POSTURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRARATER RELIABILITY; REPRODUCIBILITY; X RAY FILM; X RAY TUBE;

ADULT; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; FEMALE; HUMANS; ODONTOID PROCESS; POSTURE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SKULL;

EID: 84873356068     PISSN: 01614754     EISSN: 15326586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmpt.2012.12.009     Document Type: Article

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