Methods Height, body mass, spacing between hands, and length of the upper limbs were measured in all of the examinees. Lateral spinal curvature was identified using a bob (plummet) and clinical examination. Examinees performed five spinal flexibility tests: right and left lateral mobility test, forward bending test, shoulder static flexibility test, and neck and trunk static flexibility test. R...

Objectives/Goals Considering the variety of spinal deformity treatments, many patients agree that after surgery their mobility is significantly reduced. The utilization of resorbable materials for anterior spinal fusion systems, patients will experience the success of spinal deformity treatment and retain their prior mobility. If the systems are used on vertebrae with larger anterior width, the...

Background The etiology of Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis has been investigated for years. Now that the genetic basis for the disease has been established, the actual mechanism for production of the curve still needs to be discovered. Several have proposed a theory involving balance, with the brain and spinal cord causing spinal curvature related to neurologic signals [1,2]. An opportunity to ...

in this study to determine whether spine stiffness is predictive of clinical results after lumbar spinal fusion for spinal stenosis, a total of 78 patients were measured intraoperatively with kocher clamp manual distraction technique to determine motion segment stiffness then spinal fusion was performed for any loose segment. ‎statistical analysis revealed that stiffness measurement correlate w...

The objective of this study was to determine the bioelectric activity of the spinal muscles on both sides of the primary curvature, both statically (in a habitual posture) and dynamically (in an active attempt to correct the curvature). The study comprised two groups: one group of 110 children and adolescents aged 6 to 17 (mean age 11.5 ± 3.0) with clinical symptoms of scoliosis (as per Cobb) a...

Cobb angle, which is a measure of spinal curvature, is the standard method for quantifying the magnitude of Scoliosis, related to spinal deformity in orthopedics. Determining the Cobb angle through manual process is subject to human errors. In this work, we propose a methodology to measure the magnitude of Cobb angle, which appreciably reduces the variability related to its measurement, compare...