Reliability of Clinical Limb-length Measurements Methods

University of Pecs

Status: Completed

Conditions: Leg Length Inequality

Treatments: Diagnostic Test: EOS; Diagnostic Test: Clinical limb length measurements

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05122533

UP-CC-Ortho-LimbLength

Details and patient eligibility

About

There are numerous ways to measure limb length discrepancy in the clinical practice, although their reliability and accuracy are not well known. In our prospective diagnostic study we aimed to test the most popular methods and compare their results to EOS 3D reconstructions data.

Enrollment: 100 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 30 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Age: 18-30 years
• BMI: < 30
• Without orthopaedic complaint

Exclusion criteria

• Previous surgery on lower limb or spine
• Developmental disorder in the patients history

Trial design

100 participants in 1 patient group

Study group

Description:

18-30 year-old, healthy volunteers * Age: 18-30 years * BMI: \<30 * No previous surgery on lower limb or spine * No known developmental disorder * Without any orthopaedic complaint

Treatment:

Diagnostic Test: Clinical limb length measurements

Diagnostic Test: EOS