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© 1983 British Society for Rheumatology

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CORRELATION BETWEEN RADIOGRAPHIC AND CLINICAL MEASUREMENT OF LUMBAR SPINE MOVEMENT*

I. PORTEK1, M.J. PEARCY1,, G.P. READER2 and A.G. MOWAT3

1Oxford Orthopaedic Engineeing Centre, University of Oxford, Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre Oxford OX3 7LD
2On secondment from the Department of Human Sciences, University of Techonolgy Loughborough
3Rheumatology Unit, Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre Oxford OX3 7LD

Correspondence to: Address correspondence to Dr. M.J. Pearcy.

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.

KEY WORDS: Lumbar spine movement, Radiographic and clinical measurement

*© British Crown copyright.


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