Measuring the sacral inclination angle in clinical practice: is there an alternative to radiographs?
BACKGROUND: In patients with low back pain (LBP) the position of the pelvis is often a focus of physical or manual therapy. The 'gold standard' to determine sacral inclination is by radiograph, but methods to measure sacral inclination externally with an inclinometer have also been introduced. OBJEC...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Manipulative & Physiological Therapeutics Vol. 24; no. 8; pp. 505 - 509 |
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Elsevier B.V.
Oct2001
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ccm&AN=106898568&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ccm uiTerm: 106898568 longDbName: CINAHL Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: dissinfo: jinfo: jid: 01614754 8GE jtl: Journal of Manipulative & Physiological Therapeutics issn: 01614754 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Oct2001 vid: 24 iid: 8 pid: 1265 pub: Elsevier B.V. place: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania artinfo: ui: 106898568 2002023178 10.1067/mmt.2001.118207 NLM11677549 106898568 ppf: 505 ppct: 4 formats: fmt: @attributes: type: P tig: atl: Measuring the sacral inclination angle in clinical practice: is there an alternative to radiographs? aug: au: Bierma-Zeinstra SMA van Gool JJC Bernsen RMD Njoo KH affil: Dept of General Practice, Room Ff320, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Postbox 1738, 3000 DR Rotterdam, The Netherlands; bierma@hag.fgg.eur.nl sug: subj: Low Back Pain Diagnosis Lordosis Diagnosis Pelvis Radiography Chiropractic Assessment Adult Middle Age Female Male Regression P-Value Descriptive Statistics Confidence Intervals Lordosis Radiography Low Back Pain Radiography Reliability Validity Human Adult: 19-44 years Middle Aged: 45-64 years Female Male ab: BACKGROUND: In patients with low back pain (LBP) the position of the pelvis is often a focus of physical or manual therapy. The 'gold standard' to determine sacral inclination is by radiograph, but methods to measure sacral inclination externally with an inclinometer have also been introduced. OBJECTIVE: To determine the validity of the inclinometer in measuring the sacral inclination in patients with LBP. SUBJECTS: Adult patients with LBP who were referred by the general practitioner to the hospital for radiograph examination of the lumbosacral spine were included. METHODS: Measurement of sacral inclination acquired with the inclinometer, simultaneous with the x-ray exposure, was compared with the 'gold standard' measurement of sacral inclination on the radiograph. Regression analysis was used to define the measurement error. RESULTS: Of 50 consecutive patients with LBP, radiographs of 41 patients were useful for the required measurements on the radiograph. The mean difference between the radiographic and inclinometer method was 23.12 degrees. The measurement error was 8.26 degrees. Regression analyses showed poor correlation between both methods (r = 0.28). CONCLUSIONS: The method we used to measure sacral inclination with an inclinometer proved to be invalid. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: research tables/charts Journal Article ougenre: Article language: English refInfo: holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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