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Changes In Spinal Height Supine And Walking In Subjects With And Without Lower Back Pain, Dave Gregory
Changes In Spinal Height Supine And Walking In Subjects With And Without Lower Back Pain, Dave Gregory
Rehabilitation Sciences Theses & Dissertations
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to develop and test a device that could be used in clinical situations to measure spinal height in subjects with lower back pain.
Introduction: Spinal height measurement provides information on the impact of spinal loading on the intervertebral disc. The stadiometer is presently the most accurate device for this purpose but users of the device must be trained to be measured. This excludes untrainable subjects such as those with lower back pain. For this study, a new ins1rument was developed combining aspects of the stadiometer and other devices to produce a simpler method …