Department of Sport Physiology and Corrective Exercises, Faculty of Sport Sciences, Urmia University, Urmia, Iran.
Musculoskelet Sci Pract. 2020 Oct;49:102216. doi: 10.1016/j.msksp.2020.102216. Epub 2020 Jul 14.
It is important to precisely measure thoracic kyphosis while examining the patients and studying effectiveness of therapeutic treatments.
The present study evaluates validity as well as intra- and inter-rater reliability of health-related Goniometer-Pro android app in measuring thoracic kyphosis.
A total number of 31 subjects were examined to validate using markers and measures of the proposed method to mark the spinous process, palpation, and radiologic imaging in the sagittal plane to obtain the thoracic curvature using Cobb method. Moreover, 40 subjects were examined for reliability by applying an evaluator at three occasions with an interval of one week (intra-rater) and three different evaluators at the same place and day (inter-rater).
Findings indicated that there was no significant difference between Cobb angle and the angle from the proposed method in thoracic curvature (p > 0.5). However, significant correlation was observed for the thoracic (r = 0.81, P = 0.000) with an ICC of 0.89. Intra- and inter-rater measurements were significantly correlated.
Our proposed method using Goniometer-Pro android app is highly reliable and accurate in determining thoracic curvature values.
在检查患者和研究治疗效果时，精确测量胸椎后凸非常重要。
本研究评估了健康相关 Goniometer-Pro 安卓应用程序测量胸椎后凸的有效性和组内、组间可靠性。
共有 31 名受试者接受了检查，使用标记物和所提出方法的测量值来标记棘突、触诊和矢状面的放射影像学，以 Cobb 法获得胸椎曲率。此外，40 名受试者接受了可靠性评估，由一名评估员在三个不同的时间点进行评估，间隔为一周（组内），以及由三名不同的评估员在同一地点和日期进行评估（组间）。
研究结果表明，在胸椎曲率方面，Cobb 角与所提出方法的角度之间没有显著差异（p＞0.5）。然而，在胸椎（r=0.81，P=0.000）方面观察到了显著的相关性，ICC 为 0.89。组内和组间的测量值也显著相关。
我们使用 Goniometer-Pro 安卓应用程序的方法在确定胸椎曲率值方面具有高度的可靠性和准确性。
