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Figure 16 | Scoliosis

Figure 16

From: Pathogenesis of adolescent idiopathic scoliosis in girls - a double neuro-osseous theory involving disharmony between two nervous systems, somatic and autonomic expressed in the spine and trunk: possible dependency on sympathetic nervous system and hormones with implications for medical therapy

Figure 16

Girls with infantile idiopathic scoliosis (IIS) and normal girls. Biacromial width plotted against 5 cm ranges of sub-ischial height (SIH = standing height minus sitting height). The shoulders of the girls with IIS are significantly narrower relative to the normal girls at most of the SIH ranges above 55 cm (mixed longitudinal data by two observers (RGB & PHD) from subjects in Birmingham, Nottingham and Liverpool during 1972-76; n = 91, means ± 1 standard error, statistical significance levels for p values from t-test * = 1-5%, ** = 0.1-1%, *** p < 0.001, NS = not significant) (Diagram redrawn from Dangerfield et al [402]).

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Scoliosis and Spinal Disorders

ISSN: 2397-1789

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