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Figure 6 | Scoliosis

Figure 6

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 6

Right thoracic AIS girls from preoperative (n = 77) and screened (n = 33) girls. Linear regression analyses, Pearson correlation coefficients and scatter diagrams of apical axial vertebral rotation (AVR, Perdriolle [181]) against upper arm length asymmetries (right minus left) for higher (n-57) and lower (n = 53) BMI subsets (mean BMIs 21.8 and 17.3 respectively, p < 0.001). Note, the statistically significant correlation for the lower (p = 0.002, r = 0.421) but not higher BMI subset (p = 0.444, r = 0.105); the difference between higher and lower BMI subsets after correcting for menarcheal age is statistically significant for AVR (p = 0.001) but not Cobb angle (p = 0.199). Mean Cobb angles 45.4/45.4 degrees of similar curve types; mean AVRs 23.9/19.7 degrees (p = 0.015) both independent of age; mean upper am length asymmeties (right minus left) 4.7/6.7 mm (p = 0.172) both significantly different from normals (p = 0.005/p < 0.001); mean menarcheal ages 12.69 years and 13.31 years (p = 0.046, premenarcheal n = 5 & 14 respectively) (ANOVAs correcting for age) [46, 120, 121].

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Scoliosis and Spinal Disorders

ISSN: 2397-1789

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