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Breast size, bra fit and thoracic pain in young women: a correlational study

Overview of attention for article published in Chiropractic & Osteopathy, March 2008
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (99th percentile)

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Article details
Title
Breast size, bra fit and thoracic pain in young women: a correlational study
Published in
Chiropractic & Osteopathy, March 2008
DOI 10.1186/1746-1340-16-1
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Abstract

A single sample study was undertaken to determine the strength and direction of correlations between: a) breast size and thoracic spine or posterior chest wall pain; b) bra fit and thoracic spine or posterior chest wall pain and; c) breast size and bra fit, in thirty nulliparous women (18-26 years), with thoracic spine or posterior chest wall pain, who wore bras during daytime.

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Australia 1 <1%
Unknown 122 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 21 17%
Student > Bachelor 15 12%
Student > Ph. D. Student 13 11%
Researcher 12 10%
Other 8 7%
Other 21 17%
Unknown 33 27%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 28 23%
Sports and Recreations 20 16%
Nursing and Health Professions 8 7%
Engineering 7 6%
Social Sciences 5 4%
Other 19 15%
Unknown 36 29%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 376. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 17 August 2026.
All research outputs
#105,137
of 34,351,437 outputs
Outputs from Chiropractic & Osteopathy
#1
of 88 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#160
of 135,312 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Chiropractic & Osteopathy
#1
of 2 outputs
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So far Altmetric has tracked 88 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 19.9. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 98% of its peers.
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