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| Title |
Association of Mild Leg Length Discrepancy and Degenerative Changes in the Hip Joint and Lumbar Spine
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| Published in |
Journal of Manipulative & Physiological Therapeutics, April 2017
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| DOI | 10.1016/j.jmpt.2017.03.001 |
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| Authors |
Kelvin J. Murray, Tom Molyneux, Michael R. Le Grande, Aurora Castro Mendez, Franz K. Fuss, Michael F. Azari |
| Abstract |
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the correlation between mild leg length discrepancy (LLD) and degenerative joint disease (DJD) or osteoarthritis. We evaluated standard postural lumbopelvic radiographs from 255 adults (121 women and 134 men) who had presented with spinal pain for chiropractic care. Symmetry of femoral head diameters was used to exclude magnification errors. Pearson's partial correlation was used to control for age and derive effect sizes for LLD on DJD in the hip and lower lumbar motion segments. Krippendorff's α was used for intraobserver and interobserver reliability. A strong correlation was found between LLD and hip DJD in men (r = 0.532) and women (r = 0.246). We also found a strong correlation between LLD and DJD at the L5-S1 motion segment in men (r = 0.395) and women (r = 0.246). At the L4-5 spinal level this correlation was much attenuated in men (r = 0.229) and women (r = 0.166). These findings suggest an association between LLD and hip and lumbar DJD. Cause-effect relationships between mild LLD and DJD deserve to be properly evaluated in future longitudinal cohort studies. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 3 | 38% |
| Saudi Arabia | 1 | 13% |
| Italy | 1 | 13% |
| United Arab Emirates | 1 | 13% |
| Unknown | 2 | 25% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 5 | 63% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 2 | 25% |
| Scientists | 1 | 13% |
Mendeley readers
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Australia | 1 | 1% |
| Unknown | 89 | 99% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
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| Researcher | 14 | 16% |
| Student > Bachelor | 13 | 14% |
| Student > Master | 9 | 10% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 7 | 8% |
| Other | 6 | 7% |
| Other | 18 | 20% |
| Unknown | 23 | 26% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 26 | 29% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 18 | 20% |
| Sports and Recreations | 5 | 6% |
| Engineering | 4 | 4% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 3 | 3% |
| Other | 7 | 8% |
| Unknown | 27 | 30% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 9. 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 25 July 2018.
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