CORRELATION BETWEEN RADIOGRAPHIC AND CLINICAL MEASUREMENT OF LUMBAR SPINE MOVEMENT

SUMMARY Clinical and radiological techniques were used to examine the lumbar movements of 11 male subjects with no history of low back pain. The clinical techniques were shown liable to large errors, particularly where distances between skin marks were measured. The use of an inclinator was the only...

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Published inRheumatology (Oxford, England) Vol. 22; no. 4; pp. 197 - 205
Main Authors PORTEK, I., PEARCY, M.J., READER, G.P., MOWAT, A.G.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Oxford University Press 1983
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Lumbar spine movement
Radiographic and clinical measurement
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Summary:SUMMARY Clinical and radiological techniques were used to examine the lumbar movements of 11 male subjects with no history of low back pain. The clinical techniques were shown liable to large errors, particularly where distances between skin marks were measured. The use of an inclinator was the only clinical technique found to be reproducible by different observers. Comparison with the radiological techniques showed that the clinical measures only gave indices of back movement which did not reflect true intervertebral movement.
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British Crown copyright.
Address correspondence to Dr. M.J. Pearcy.
ArticleID:22.4.197
ISSN:1462-0324
1462-0332
DOI:10.1093/rheumatology/22.4.197