Introduction Frequent assessment and monitoring of AIS patients is necessary to determine the progression of spinal deformity. Radiographs are used as the standard-of-care for evaluation, but have negative long-term effects. Surface topography is a safer option for assessment in these patients. The Formetric 4D (DIERS, International GmbH of Schlangenbad, Germany) provides fast and radiation-fre...

We p rovide here a computational interpretation of rst-order logic based on a constructive interpretation of satisability w.r.t. a xed but arbitrary interpretation. In this approach the formulas themselves are programs. This contrasts with the so-called formulas as types approach in which the proofs of the formulas are typed terms that can be taken as programs. This view of computing is inspire...

For a symmetric monoidal-closed category X and any object K, the category of K-Chu spaces is small-topological over X and small cotopological over X . Its full subcategory of M-extensive K-Chu spaces is topological over X when X is Mcomplete, for any morphism class M. Often this subcategory may be presented as a full coreflective subcategory of Diers’ category of affine K-spaces. Hence, in addi...

Background Spine & Surface Topography (SST) has been used to perform spine diagnostics for more than 20 years. Until recently, static scans were primarily used, as dynamic scans were not properly scientifically and clinically evaluated. Also, the hardware required to perform the dynamic scan was expensive and too slow for a proper clinical use. Due to the emergence of new technology, it is now ...

[Purpose] The present study aimed to determine the effect of an 8-week program of joint mobilization on changes in pelvic obliquity and pain level in seventeen female university students aged in their 20's with sacroiliac joint dysfunction by dividing them into two groups: a joint mobilization group (MWM) and a control group. [Subjects] Seventeen subjects were selected from female university st...

Introduction Idiopathic scoliosis is a lateral deviation of the spine of unknown origin. Initiation and progression of AIS may result from vertebral column overgrowth through a lordoscoliotic maladaptation of the spine to the subclinical (functional) tether of a relatively short spinal cord. Implications for treatment however have not yet been derived from the findings as published so far with ...