Evaluation of Anterior-Posterior Spine Curvatures and Incidence of Sagittal Defects in Children and Adolescents Practicing Traditional Karate
Table 6
Relationship between parameters characterizing the shape of the spine in the sagittal plane with body height and mass, BMI depending on the group.
Spearman’s rank-order correlation
A pair of variables
Karate group (N=76)
Control group (N=76)
R Spearman
p
R Spearman
p
Body weight & ALPHA 1
0.31
0,007
-0.02
0.897
Body weight & ALPHA 2
0.19
0.102
0.02
0.840
Body weight & BETA Th/L
-0.12
0.313
-0.04
0.747
Body weight & GAMMA C7
0.16
0.164
0.31
0,007
Body weight & DELTA Th3
-0.17
0.147
0.01
0.919
Body weight & LLA
0.13
0.271
-0.08
0.503
Body weight & KTA
0.04
0.763
0.21
0.065
Body weight & KTA DH
-0.24
0,038
-0.02
0.840
Body height & ALPHA 1
0.09
0.460
0.1
0.389
Body weight & ALPHA 2
0.28
0,015
0.06
0.597
Body height & BETA Th/L
-0.16
0.179
-0.06
0.635
Body height & GAMMA C7
0.08
0.480
0.23
0,041
Body height & DELTA Th3
-0.09
0.433
-0.01
0.936
Body height & LLA
0.2
0.080
-0.03
0.806
Body height & KTA
-0.05
0.677
0.14
0.221
Body height & KTA DH
-0.23
0.047
-0.05
0.641
BMI & ALPHA 1
0.46
0,000
-0.11
0.338
BMI & ALPHA 2
-0.03
0.775
0.03
0.827
BMI & BETA Th/L
-0.09
0.452
-0.04
0.703
BMI & GAMMA C7
0.2
0.086
0.28
0,014
BMI & DELTA Th3
-0.2
0.084
0.02
0.891
BMI & LLA
-0.09
0.426
-0.11
0.336
BMI &TKA
0.09
0.441
0.20
0.087
BMI &TKA DH
-0.21
0.068
-0.02
0.865
ALPHA - sacral inclination; ALPHA 2 - angle of the medial point of the sacrum on the line connecting the so-called Venus dimples; BETA TH /L - intervertebral space Th12- L1; GAMMA C7 - intervertebral space C7-Th1, DELTA Th3 - intervertebral space Th3-Th4 - inclinometer in the plateau of kyphosis; LLA - To obtain the lumbar lordosis on angle – ALPHA 2 + BETA Th / L; TKA - the thoracic kyphosis angle BETA Th12 / L1 + GAMMA C7; TKA DH - Dowager’s hump angle GAMMA C7 + DELTA Th3/Th4); N - number of observations; p - level of probability; significance at p<0.05; significance at p<0.001; significance at p<0.0001;
