Investigation of the Validity and Reliability of Four Objective Techniques for Measuring Forward Shoulder Posture

摘要: Clinicians often rely on visual inspection and descriptive terms to document a patient's forward shoulder posture. The purpose of this study was assess the validity intrarater reliability four objective techniques measure Subjects were 25 males 24 females. had lateral cervical spine radiograph taken, from which horizontal distance C7 spinous process anterior tip left acromion measured. then proceeded twice through random order measurements: Baylor square, double Sahrmann technique, scapular position. These results used determine each technique. Multiple regression analyses performed measure's mean scores both correlation with predictive value for radiographic measurement. intraclass coefficients ranged .89 .91. co...