Postural Assessment by Photogrammetry

Osteoporosis Clinical Trial

Official title:

Evaluation of Thoracic Kyphosis in Elderly Women Affected by Osteoporosis Through Computerized Photogrammetry

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT00848159
• Other study ID #: 041/07
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• First received: February 19, 2009
• Last updated: February 19, 2009
• Start date: April 2007
• Est. completion date: February 2009

Study information

• Verified date: February 2009
• Source: Universidade de Franca
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: Brazil: Ethics Committee
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

This study aimed to measure the degree of thoracic kyphosis in elderly women with those affected by osteoporosis in the spine, through photogrammetry computer and check the difference between the values obtained with the assumption of greater thoracic kyphosis in osteoporotic women.

Description:

The decrease in bone density of vertebrae leads to a reduction of the anterior vertebral bodies, resulting in compression and collapse of vertebrae, with narrowing of intervertebral disc spaces and, determining a number of deformities in the spine and postural changes, among which can highlight the increase in thoracic kyphosis. This becomes significantly higher with age and after menopause, defined as an increase in curvature in the sagittal plane of the thoracic spine.

Radiographic images have been used for the measurement of thoracic kyphosis, but with some drawbacks of this method such as radiation exposure, radiographic image quality unsatisfactory hampering its analysis and the lack of equipment in the physical environment to monitor clinical evolution of the treatment, causing thus the search for noninvasive methods for evaluating the curves of the spine, including the photogrammetry computed.

According to the American Society of Photogrammetry, the computed photogrammetry is "the art, science and technology of information on physical objects and environment through processes of recording, measuring and interpreting photographic images and patterns of electromagnetic radiant energy and other sources." It is a widely used tool for assessment by quantifying the postural changes through the application of photogrammetric principles to photographic images obtained in body movements, adding to the diagnostic evaluation for physical therapy in different areas.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 12
• Est. completion date: February 2009
• Est. primary completion date: November 2007
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: Female
• Age group: 65 Years to 74 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• age between 50 and 80 years

• with examination of bone densitometry

• with densitometric diagnosis of osteopenia in the first group, the second group for osteoporosis,

• willing to participate in the study

Exclusion Criteria:

• presence of severe scoliosis, ankylosing spondylitis, obesity

• presence of neurological diseases serious

Study Design

N/A

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Osteoporosis

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
n/a

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Universidade de Franca

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Computerized Photogrammetry			No