Thoracic kyphosis assessment in postmenopausal women: an examination of the Flexicurve method in comparison to radiological methods.

Linda SpencerR FaryL McKennaR HoK Briffa

Published in: Osteoporosis international : a journal established as result of cooperation between the European Foundation for Osteoporosis and the National Osteoporosis Foundation of the USA (2019)

TK measured using the Flexicurve shows better agreement with the radiographic vertebral centroid method, but inaccuracy of the Flexicurve increases with increasing angle of kyphosis.

Keyphrases

postmenopausal women
bone mineral density
spinal cord
high resolution
body composition
spinal cord injury
mass spectrometry