Height gain after scoliosis correction is of a special interest for the patient and family. Ylikoski was the first to suggest a formula predicting height loss in untreated scoliotic patients. Stokes has recently suggested a new formula by using Cobb angle to determine height loss in idiopathic curves. We hypothesized that new additional variables to Cobb angle such as apical vertebral translati...

Methods The charts of the patients archived in a prospectively collected database were retrospectively reviewed. The inclusion criteria were: diagnosis of Early Onset Idiopathic Scoliosis based on spine radiography, age below 10 years, both girls and boys, Cobb angle between 11° and 30°, Risser zero, FITS therapy, no other treatment (nighttime bracing etc.), follow-up minimum 2 years from the i...

DOROTHY A. STANSFIELD, Thomas Beddoes MD, 1760-1808, Dordrecht, Reidel, 1984, 8vo, pp. xx, 306, Dfl.140.00/$54.00. Thomas Beddoes has been the subject of intermittent study, manifested through a succession of more or less specialized papers, mostly on his pneumatic studies. His political involvements have also been noticed, but usually in ways that do not reveal any substantial connexion betwee...

in this paper, productivity of and demand for water throughout eqlid’s sugar beet growers in 1385 were investigated. to address the objective 100 growers were selected using two-stage cluster sampling, then required dataset was obtained by interviewing and completing questionnaire. in order to study factors affecting sugar beet production, cobb-douglas production function was applied. based on ...

BACKGROUND Cobb measurement of standing radiographs is the standard for clinical assessment of coronal spinal deformity. Angle of trunk inclination (ATI) is an accepted clinical measurement of trunk asymmetry, and has variable reported correlations with Cobb angles. Transverse plane spine deformity is most accurately measured using axial computed tomography. Aaro and Dahlbourn's technique for q...

The subject of discussion is health care production functions. The parametric two-factor Cobb–Douglas and transcendental logarithmic (translog) production functions are frequently used. However, empirical and theoretical work has often questioned the validity of the parametric Cobb–Douglas and translog as a model for the production of health care. The aim of this study is to propose a new flexi...

Methods Study design: retrospective controlled study. Population: Exercise Group (EG): 28 consecutive scoliosis patients (26 females), age 13±2, TRACE 4.5, Cobb angle 18±3°, ATR 7±3°, Risset 0-3. SpineCor Group (SG): 41 patients (33 females), age 13±1, TRACE score 6, Cobb angle 24±5°; ATR 8±3°, Risser 0-3. EG patients performed specific exercises twice per week according to the SEAS protocol. S...

Two nematode species found in Yen River Estuary of Vietnam are described and illustrated. Subsphaerolaimus minor sp. n. is similar to S. lamasus Gerlach, 1956, but differs from it in the shorter body, comparatively shorter pharynx and shorter cephalic setae. A pictorial key for determination of valid species in the genus Subsphaerolaimus Lorenzen, 1978 is given. Micromicron cephalatum Cobb, 192...

Measurement of Cobb angle is the standard technique used for scoliosis assessment. The challenging task in computerized method lies in totally automating the method of curvature measurement from digital X-ray images. In this paper we presented a method which automatically measures the Cobb angle from radiographs after selection of the end vertebrae of the curve. The image processing methods use...