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Rehabilitation Practice and Science

Translated Title

台東市國小學童脊柱側彎之研究

Abstract

The goal of the study is to assess the prevalence, severity, and correlation with sex and age associated with scoliosis in elementary school children in Taitung city. A total of 5,611 children were screened characteristically for scoliosis using Adam’s forward bending test. Those schoolchildren who had positive forward bending test were referred to hospital for whole spinal radiographs, so that the Cobb angle could be quantified to evaluate the severity of scoliosis. 115 children had positive signs in screening test for scoliosis; the positive rate was 2.05% (girls: 2.46%, boys: 1.68%); and the positive rate of the children above 10 year-old was 3.08% (girls: 4.43%, boys: 1.95%). In spite of 115 children with positive test, there were only 53 children showing the measurement of Cobb angle over 5 degrees among 55 children who were reexamined at hospital for whole spinal radiograph. Hence the accuracy of screening test was 96.4%. The degree of Cobb angle was 8.8 in average (girl: 9.8, boy: 7.7) and appeared to incorrelate with age as a result of regression. The prevalence of scoliosis was 1.98% lower than other reports in our country.

Language

Traditional Chinese

First Page

31

Last Page

41

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