Validation of Clinical Assessment of Spinal Stiffness

Istituto Scientifico Italiano Colonna Vertebrale

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Hyperkyphosis; Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis

Treatments: Other: Clinical assessment of spinal stiffness

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05924581

ClinTest-HKS

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study aims to validate and verify the reliability of the clinical measures used in the daily routine by doctors and therapists that allow assessing the spinal stiffness in all spatial planes. The secondary objective is the verification of the diagnostic accuracy of the most reliable tests in identifying the subjects at risk of failure, using as a radiographic standard the examinations performed by the patients during the treatment (data retrieved retrospectively) using as a control group those patients who did not obtain a correction of the spine curvature.

Enrollment: 25 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 10 to 17 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Scoliosis > 10°Cobb or Hyperkyophosis >50° Cobb
• Age between 10 and 17 years old
• Risser between 0 and 5

Exclusion criteria

• History of spinal surgery
• Presence of back pain
• Diagnosis of congenital scoliosis or scoliosis secondary to neurological or muscular diseases

Trial design

Primary purpose: Diagnostic

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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25 participants in 1 patient group

Clinical assessment of spinal stiffness

Experimental group

Description:

Patients' back flexibility will be assessed during the medical examination or physiotherapy session through one of the following non-invasive tests: * Thoracic Stiffness Test (TST) * Scoliosis stiffness test (SST) * Kyphosis Stiffness Test (KST) Each test will be carried out at the beginning of the visit and repeated at the end 2 times by different operators, or once by the same operator to verify that the measurements taken at different times are reliable and that the measurements taken by two different operators are reliable.

Treatment:

Other: Clinical assessment of spinal stiffness