3+ 4/2002 - Společnost pro pojivové tkáně

INTRODUCTION
The perennial attention for the biomechanic
of human spine as the skeleton axis
is still patent. For the understanding of the
form and greatness of the changes of spine
and her single parts, which arise from
pathological grounds or transient, swing to
different types of work or movement load,
is proper from the point of view of the
objective consider to know the length
dimensions of single spine parts and the
relative location of peaks of their anteroposterior
curves, too. For the mentioned
judgement of course is necessary to know
the sizes in normal population; it means
healthy population.
From above-mentioned grounds we
made the measurements of perpendicular
Figure 1. Columnometer – Apparatus for the measurement on the spine.
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and anteroposterior dimensions of thoracic
and lumbar spine in standing and sitting
positions by young Czech women.The part
of the results we present in our paper.
MATERIAL AND METHOD
LOCOMOTOR SYSTEM vol. 9, 2002, No. 3+4
The research of thoracolumbal spine
was made in 101 Czech university students,
then in young adult women aged of 18 – 25
years. To the measurement was used the
apparatus, which was constructed at the
State Health Institute in Prague by Dr.
Tihelková. It was named by us „columnometer“
(Fig. 1.). All measurements were executed
at the standard laboratory conditions,
which are described in our paper in journal
„Locomotor System“,Volume 4, in 1997.