1. A New Performance Test for Cervical Myelopathy.
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Mihara, Hisanori, Kondo, Soichi, Murata, Atsushi, Ishida, Koh, Niimura, Takanori, and Hachiya, Masashi
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STEP tests , *SPINE diseases , *SPINAL cord diseases , *ORTHOPEDICS , *DIAGNOSIS ,CERVICAL vertebrae diseases - Abstract
The article presents a study on the triangle step test (TST) which is used to evaluate the severity of cervical myelopathy in Yokohama Minami Kyosai Hospital, Yokohama, Japan. The study involves 270 cervical myelopathy patients who were instructed to step on marks at each apex of a triangular board and the number of steps in 10 seconds was counted for each foot. Results of the study show that the TST scores show a significant correlation with the other analytic tests for cervical myelopathy.
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- 2010
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