title: Assessment of the flexibility of the lumbar spine in childhood and adolescence.
abstract: Two different tape measurement techniques were tested for anterior spinal flexion in 393 children varying in age from 7 to 14 years. With one technique the skin distraction was found to be more than 6 cm and with the other one more than 4.7 cm. Both were age-dependent but were independent of height and weight.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000367:Age Factors; D001699:Biometry / Q000379:methods; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008161:Lumbosacral Region; D008297:Male; D009068:Movement; D012737:Sex Factors; D013131:Spine / Q000502:physiology*