tailieunhanh - Báo cáo y học: Anatomic and functional leg-length inequality: A review and recommendation for clinical decision-making. Part I, anatomic leg-length inequality: prevalence, magnitude, effects and clinical significance

Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học Critical Care giúp cho các bạn có thêm kiến thức về ngành y học đề tài: Anatomic and functional leg-length inequality: A review and recommendation for clinical decision-making. Part I, anatomic leg-length inequality: prevalence, magnitude, effects and clinical significance. | Chiropractic Osteopathy BioMed Central Review Open Access Anatomic and functional leg-length inequality A review and recommendation for clinical decision-making. Part I anatomic leg-length inequality prevalence magnitude effects and clinical significance Gary A Knutson Address 840 W. 17th Suite 5 Bloomington IN 47404 USA Email Gary A Knutson - gaknutson@ Corresponding author Published 20 July 2005 Chiropractic Osteopathy 2005 13 11 doi 1746-1 340-13-11 Received 31 May 2005 Accepted 20 July 2005 This article is available from http content 13 1 1 1 2005 Knutson licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background Leg-length inequality is most often divided into two groups anatomic and functional. Part I of this review analyses data collected on anatomic leg-length inequality relative to prevalence magnitude effects and clinical significance. Part II examines the functional short leg including anatomic-functional relationships and provides an outline for clinical decision-making. Methods Online database - Medline CINAHL and MANTIS - and library searches for the time frame of 1970-2005 were done using the term leg-length inequality . Results and Discussion Using data on leg-length inequality obtained by accurate and reliable x-ray methods the prevalence of anatomic inequality was found to be 90 the mean magnitude of anatomic inequality was mm SD . The evidence suggests that for most people anatomic leg-length inequality does not appear to be clinically significant until the magnitude reaches 20 mm 3 4 . Conclusion Anatomic leg-length inequality is near universal but the average magnitude is small and not likely to be clinically significant. Review Leg-length inequality