{"id":3411,"date":"1989-02-01T21:30:57","date_gmt":"1989-02-02T04:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.activator.com\/?p=3411"},"modified":"1989-02-01T21:30:57","modified_gmt":"1989-02-02T04:30:57","slug":"interexaminer-reliability-of-relative-leg-length-evaluations-in-the-prone-extended-position","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/activator.com\/interexaminer-reliability-of-relative-leg-length-evaluations-in-the-prone-extended-position\/","title":{"rendered":"Interexaminer Reliability of Relative Leg Length Evaluations in the Prone Extended Position"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Abstract<\/h3>\n<p>The interexaminer reliability of relative\u00a0 leg-length evaluation was studied on a sample of 30 subjects by\u00a0 examiners. Prone leg length was examined categorically, whether heels\u00a0 were even or whether there was a relative shortness to either side.\u00a0 Relative leg-length differences were estimated by using a ruler.\u00a0 Concordance was computed using Kappa and intra-class correlation\u00a0 coefficients. The Kappa statistic yielded \u201cfair\u201d to \u201cgood\u201d concordance\u00a0 (ranges: 0.31-0.75) among the 6 combinations of examiner pairs. The\u00a0 results support the reliability of observing and measuring relative leg-\u00a0 length inequality in the prone position, and are intended to establish a\u00a0 baseline for future investigation.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chiroindex.org\/journals\/?search_page=journals&amp;action=view&amp;journalId=1032\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chiropr Tech<\/a> 1989; 1(1):13-8.<\/p>\n<p>Author information: Fuhr AW, Osterbauer PJ. Activator Methods, Inc. Phoenix, AZ 85060.<\/p>\n<script>function getWR360PopupSkin(){return 'light_clean';}<\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abstract The interexaminer reliability of relative\u00a0 leg-length evaluation was studied on a sample of 30 subjects by\u00a0 examiners. Prone leg length was examined categorically, whether heels\u00a0 were even or whether there was a relative shortness to either side.\u00a0 Relative leg-length differences were estimated by using a ruler.\u00a0 Concordance was computed using Kappa and intra-class correlation\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,4],"tags":[13,30,43],"class_list":["post-3411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-leg-length-inequality","category-research","tag-chiropractic","tag-leg-length-inequality","tag-reliability"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/activator.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/activator.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/activator.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/activator.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/activator.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/activator.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3411\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/activator.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/activator.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/activator.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}