THE USE OF TWO DIFFERENT SMARTPHONE APPLICATIONS IN MEASURING SAGITTAL SPINAL CURVATURE

ConditionSpine
Trial statusNot yet recruiting
Trial phaseNot listed
Trial typeObservational
Biological sexAll
Age18-25
SponsorAhi Evran University Education and Research Hospital

About this trial

This study will include healthy volunteers aged 18-25 years. Demographic information will be recorded, and an experienced physiotherapist will mark five reference points on the spine of the participants, starting from the cervical spine and extending to the lumbar spine. Angle measurements will then be taken from these five reference points using a gravity inclinometer, an Android smartphone, and an iOS phone. Measurements will be repeated twice on the same day and twice again 24-48 hours later using three different devices. The accuracy and similarity of the measurements taken with these three devices will then be compared.

Eligibility criteria

This trial accepts healthy volunteers

Qualifiers

Being over 18 years of age,

being able to stand and walk without an assistive device,

not having experienced back pain or lower extremity pain in the last 6 months,

and being willing to participate in the study.

Disqualifiers

Lack of consent,

lower extremity injuries (dislocation, sprain) within one month prior to measurement,

lower extremity fractures within the last 6 months,

tactile sensitivity that prevents the adoption of a free and habitual posture.

Trial population

healthy older individuals

Trial design

Design model

Cohort

Time perspective

Cross-sectional

Treatments tested in this trial

Not listed

Trial groups

No trial groups listed

Trial outcomes

Primary outcomes

1

Assessment of Spinal Curvature

Description: The following 5 parameters were used for the measurement: 1. ALPHA 1 angle of sacrum (upper beam of the inclinometer, in the middle of the intervertebral space, on the line connecting the posterior superior iliac crests). 2. ALPHA 2 angle - sacrolumbar junction S/L (center of the inclinometer on the line connecting the posterior superior iliac crests). 3. BETA angle - Th12-L1 thoracolumbar junction (center of the inclinometer at the thoracolumbar junction). 4. GAMMA angle - C7-Th1 (center of the inclinometer on C7). 5. DELTA angle - Th3-Th4 (upper beam of the inclinometer at the height of the upper angle of the scapula).

Time frame
Two measurements taken 10 minutes apart.

Secondary outcomes

Other outcomes

Locations

This trial has no locations.

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