Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis, Hyperkyphosis
Conditions
Brief 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.
Interventions
OTHERClinical assessment of spinal stiffness
The clinical stiffness tests will be applied twice to the same patient by the same operator to verify intra-operator variability and twice by two operators at the same time to verify inter-operator variability. The verification of diagnostic accuracy with respect to the radiographic reference standard will be carried out retrospectively by using the data already available and systematically collected in electronic format during medical visits and physiotherapy sessions.
Sponsors
Istituto Scientifico Italiano Colonna Vertebrale
Study design
Allocation
NA
Intervention model
SINGLE_GROUP
Primary purpose
DIAGNOSTIC
Masking
NONE
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
10 Years to 17 Years
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
* Scoliosis \> 10°Cobb or Hyperkyophosis \>50° Cobb * Age between 10 and 17 years old * Risser between 0 and 5
Exclusion criteria
* History of spinal surgery * Presence of back pain * Diagnosis of congenital scoliosis or scoliosis secondary to neurological or muscular diseases
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Reliability | through study completion, an average of 6 months | Test-retest reliability of the three stiffness assessment tests. Inter class correlation will be calculated |
| Repeatability | through study completion, an average of 6 months | Inter-Rater and Intra-Rater Repeatability of the three stiffness assessment tests |
| Diagnostic accuracy | through study completion, an average of 6 months | diagnostic sensitivity and specificity of each test |
Countries
Italy
Contacts
Primary ContactStefano Negrini, MD, PhD
Backup ContactAlessandra Negrini
Outcome results
None listed