Validation of Clinical Assessment of Spinal Stiffness in Hyperkyphosis and Scoliosis During Growth
Status: Recruiting
Location: See location...
Intervention Type: Other
Study Type: Interventional
Study Phase: Not Applicable
SUMMARY
This study aims to validate and verify the reliability of the clinical measures used in the daily routine by doctors and therapists that allow assessing the spinal stiffness in all spatial planes. The secondary objective is the verification of the diagnostic accuracy of the most reliable tests in identifying the subjects at risk of failure, using as a radiographic standard the examinations performed by the patients during the treatment (data retrieved retrospectively) using as a control group those patients who did not obtain a correction of the spine curvature.
Eligibility
Participation Requirements
Sex: All
Minimum Age: 10
Maximum Age: 17
Healthy Volunteers: f
View:
• Scoliosis \> 10°Cobb or Hyperkyophosis \>50° Cobb
• Age between 10 and 17 years old
• Risser between 0 and 5
Locations
Other Locations
Italy
ISICO
RECRUITING
Milan
Contact Information
Primary
Stefano Negrini, MD, PhD
stefano.negrini@isico.it
+3902 8416 1700
Backup
Alessandra Negrini
alessandra.negrini@isico.it
+3902 8416 1700
Time Frame
Start Date: 2023-06-06
Estimated Completion Date: 2024-12
Participants
Target number of participants: 25
Treatments
Experimental: Clinical assessment of spinal stiffness
Patients' back flexibility will be assessed during the medical examination or physiotherapy session through one of the following non-invasive tests:~* Thoracic Stiffness Test (TST)~* Scoliosis stiffness test (SST)~* Kyphosis Stiffness Test (KST) Each test will be carried out at the beginning of the visit and repeated at the end 2 times by different operators, or once by the same operator to verify that the measurements taken at different times are reliable and that the measurements taken by two different operators are reliable.
Related Therapeutic Areas
Sponsors
Leads: Istituto Scientifico Italiano Colonna Vertebrale