A new television technique that proved to be faster than conventional photographic analysis has been developed and applied to the evaluation of the head and body natural standing posture in 303 healthy children, ages 6 to 11, and in 186 healthy young adults. In the lateral plane all subjects had extended head (soft tissue Frankfurt plane), with parallel Camper's and occlusal planes. The neck was halfway between the horizontal and vertical planes. Most angles significantly correlated with each other. The occlusal and neck angles showed a significant effect of age, being larger in children than in adults. In children the neck was more flexed, and the occlusal plane was more inclined downward. The results were in accord with previous photographic evaluations showing that the applied method was reliable and could be usefully employed in postural investigations. The results also confirmed that in healthy subjects, regardless of age, the soft tissue Frankfurt plane is extended, not horizontal.
New television technique for natural head and body posture analysis / V.F. Ferrario, C. Sforza, G. Tartaglia, E. Barbini, G. Michielon. - In: CRANIO. - ISSN 0886-9634. - 13:4(1995), pp. 247-255.
New television technique for natural head and body posture analysis
V.F. FerrarioPrimo
;C. SforzaSecondo
;G. Tartaglia;G. Michielon
1995
Abstract
A new television technique that proved to be faster than conventional photographic analysis has been developed and applied to the evaluation of the head and body natural standing posture in 303 healthy children, ages 6 to 11, and in 186 healthy young adults. In the lateral plane all subjects had extended head (soft tissue Frankfurt plane), with parallel Camper's and occlusal planes. The neck was halfway between the horizontal and vertical planes. Most angles significantly correlated with each other. The occlusal and neck angles showed a significant effect of age, being larger in children than in adults. In children the neck was more flexed, and the occlusal plane was more inclined downward. The results were in accord with previous photographic evaluations showing that the applied method was reliable and could be usefully employed in postural investigations. The results also confirmed that in healthy subjects, regardless of age, the soft tissue Frankfurt plane is extended, not horizontal.Pubblicazioni consigliate
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