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Orthopaedic Proceedings
Vol. 96-B, Issue SUPP_6 | Pages 1 - 1
1 Apr 2014
THE EFFECT OF SPINAL CURVATURE ON MEASURED SITTING HEIGHT IN AIS
Price A Gardner A Baker D Berryman F Pynsent P
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Aim:

AIS causes a loss of trunk height. This paper documents this loss against sitting height standards and assesses formulae for adjusting height loss back to the standard.

Methods:

A total of 334 patients (84% female) with AIS and no other known systemic disease had sitting height measured. This was compared to standards of sitting height with age and the ratio of height to sitting height with age (HSH).

The corrected height was calculated using published formulae and replotted against these standards.