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School screening for scoliosis in India the evaluation of a scoliometer by R. L. Mittal; R. Aggerwal; A. K. Sarwal is a Medicine article available to read on EtoBox.
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All school children in Patiala City (25,376) were examined to find out the incidence of scoliosis. There were 12,934 boys and 12,442 girls. Their ages ranged from 5 to 18 years. Adam's forward-bending test and a newly designed "Scoliometer" was used to detect and measure the rib hump in all cases. There was an overall incidence of scoliosis of 0.13%. This was higher in boys (0.15%) than in girls (0.10%). The majority of the curves were mild (81.25%). Paralytic scoliosis was the major group (43.7%) and most the result of poliomyelitis. The incidence was higher in the low socioeconomic group (0.4%), compared to the middle (0.12%) and high (0.01%) income groups.
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- Author
- R. L. Mittal; R. Aggerwal; A. K. Sarwal
- Publisher
- Springer; Springer-Verlag; Springer Verlag; Springer Science and Business Media LLC (ISSN 0341-2695)
- Published
- 1986
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Medicine (Health Sciences)