Reliability and Validity of Single Inclinometer Measurements for Thoracic Spine Range of Motion

Clinical methods to quantify trunk mobility in an elite male surfing population

“…Kyphosis was determined through the inclinometer methods previously described by (Lee et al, 2003;Lewis & Valentine, 2010). The hypothesised reason for this decreased neutral kyphosis may be due to the activity requirements of surfing with approximately 50% of a surfing session spent in the prone position paddling (Farley et al, 2012).…”

“…The participant then maximally extended their spine by pointing their elbows upwards with the amount of thoracic mobility recorded on the inclinometer or HALO (D in Figure 2). T1/2 was chosen as the landmark for this assessment method as it has previously been used for measuring thoracic mobility in the sagittal plane (Lee et al, 2003;O'Gorman & Jull, 1987). It needs to be noted that the HALO method does not distinguish between lumbar or thoracic movement and is considered to assess thoracolumbar mobility in the sagittal plane.…”

Photographic measurement of upper-body sitting posture of high school students: A reliability and validity study

“…We undertook a systematic review of published research, which reported on sitting posture measurement tools. We identified nine relevant papers describing only three measurement approaches (goniometer [ 17 - 19 ], inclinometer [ 20 - 23 ] and flexicurve [ 24 , 25 ]). None of these approaches has been validated for adolescents (high school students).…”