STUDIES ON THE STRAIGHT LEG RAISING ANGLE IN JAPANESE ADULTS

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  • 成人における下し伸展挙上角度について　　特にＳＬＲテストに対する考察
  • 特にSLRテストに対する考察

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In this paper, we studied on the straight leg raising angle in Japanese healthy adults, and reported some findings concerning to the evaluation of the straight leg raising test which was widely use in the diagnosis of lumbarr disk herniation.<br>On 946 males and 842 females of 20 to 69 years of age, measurement was made of maximal angle of hip flexion with extended knee enabling them to passively raising up the leg slowly without resistance.<br>The results obtained revealed critical values of the straight leg raising angle of 65 degrees for male and 75 degrees for female.<br>The evaluation of straight leg raising test needs to take the followings into consideration; male and female show sexual variation in normal values of straitht leg raising angle, with significantly larger angles for female, and there are no difference between the right and left legs in values, and there are high correlation between the right and left legs.<br>Tight hamstrings were observed in 12.5% of healthy male and 13.2% of healthy female, with a predominance in fifties and sixties for male and in twenties for female.

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