Open AccessAre There Age- and Sex-related Differences in Spinal Sagittal Alignment and Balance Among Taiwanese Asymptomatic Adults?
Author(s) -
KuangTing Yeh,
RuPing Lee,
Ing-Ho Chen,
TzaiChiu Yu,
Cheng-Huan Peng,
KuanLin Liu,
Jen-Hung Wang,
WenTien Wu
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
clinical orthopaedics and related research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.178
H-Index - 204
eISSN - 1528-1132
pISSN - 0009-921X
DOI - 10.1007/s11999.0000000000000140
Subject(s) - medicine , pelvic tilt , sagittal plane , asymptomatic , lordosis , population , lumbar , orthodontics , pelvis , radiography , physical therapy , surgery , anatomy , environmental health
Sagittal spinopelvic balance and proper sagittal alignment are important when planning corrective or reconstructive spinal surgery. Prior research suggests that people from different races and countries have moderate divergence; to the best of our knowledge, the population of Taiwan has not been studied with respect to this parameter.