The human spine is an important structure, providing strength and support as well as permitting the body to bend, stretch, rotate and lean. It is also a vulnerable part of our skeleton open to disease and injuries like whiplash, low back pain, scoliosis etc. Whiplash is a frequent consequence of rear-end automobile accidents and has been a significant public health problem for many years with i...

Background and objective: Aging is a natural process associated changes in posture, mainly at the spine lead to complications functional independence quality of life. The aim this review identify existing measuring tools used measure hyperkyphotic posture elderly population. Methods: Electronic databases were searched from January 2001 December 2021, with different combinations keywords, “thora...

Using the visual search method, we show that stimuli that contain curvature discontinuities (i.e., points where the second derivative along an image contour is not defined) are easily found among stimuli containing only smooth changes in curvature. Curved stimuli that lack curvature discontinuities, however, are difficult to find among distractors that have them. These results suggest that the ...

Background. Idiopathic scoliosis is a three-dimensional deformity of the spine and the trunk. The principle clinical method of estimation of the rotational deformity in the transversal plane of the body is the measurement of the angle of trunk rotation with a scoliometer. The aim of the study was to investigate the relationship between the angle of trunk rotation and the two radiological parame...

Medical robots have been applied to a variety of areas and have great potential to radically change the mode of surgical operations and conventional medical-care as part of a more information-intensive environment that exploits the complementary strengths of computer-based technology. Scoliosis is an unnatural curvature or deformity of the spine with lateral deviations from the normally vertica...

The objectives of this study were: To investigate computer-assisted digital radiographic measurement of Cobb angles in dogs with congenital thoracic vertebral malformations, to determine its intra- and inter-observer reliability and its association with the presence of neurological deficits. Medical records were reviewed (2009-2013) to identify brachycephalic screw-tailed dog breeds with radiog...

Various mutants of Arabidopsis thaliana deficient in polarity, cell division, and auxin response are characterized by certain types of leaf curvature. However, comparison of curvature for clarification of gene function can be difficult without a quantitative measurement of curvature. Here, a novel method for classification and quantification of leaf curvature is reported. Twenty-two mutant alle...

  Background :Falls have been strongly associated with decreased physical activity and impaired mobility. Reduced range of motion, as a consequence of muscle stiffness, has been indicated to assume a positive relationship to fall incidence. Also clinical observations suggest that maintaining the normal spinal curves is associated with the prevention of spinal, knee and hip disorders. Thus, the ...