2002 Relations Between Standing Stability and Body Posture Parameters in Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis Medscape

Description: Relations Between Standing Stability and Body Posture Parameters in Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis
from Spine 27(17):1911-1917, 2002 Posted 10/14/2002
Marie-Lyne Nault, BSc; Paul Allard, PhD, PEng; Sébastien Hinse, MSc; Richard Le Blanc, PhD; Olivier Caron, PhD; Hubert Labelle, MD; Heydar Sadeghi, PhD
Conclusions: The use of backward stepwise multiple correlations highlighted the interaction between several body parameters and their relation to standing stability in both able-bodied girls and scoliotic subjects. The scoliotic group displayed a much larger number of correlations between standing stability and body posture parameters than the nonscoliotic group. Standing imbalance was related to altered body posture parameters measured in the frontal and horizontal planes only. Although the correlation coefficients were relatively high, factors other than body posture parameters appeared related to standing imbalance in adolescent idiopathic scoliosis. These findings support the concept of either a primary or a secondary dysfunction in the postural regulation system of scoliotic subjects.