Reliability of the SpinalMouse for calculating intravertebral range of motion

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Grégoire Arnold Paul Vaucher. n.d. “Reliability of the SpinalMouse for Calculating Intravertebral Range of Motion.”, Osteopathic Research Web, accessed December 17, 2025, https://library.wso.at/s/orw/item/1042

Title: Reliability of the SpinalMouse for calculating intravertebral range of motion
Author(s): Grégoire Arnold Paul Vaucher
Abstract: Title: Arnold G, Vaucher P. Reliability of the SpinalMouse for calculating intravertebral range of motion. Undergraduate research project. Swiss School of Osteopathy. 2004Study Design: Test-retest design for Intra and interrater reliability.
Objectives: To determine the intra and interrater reliability of the Spinalmouse® for measuring range of motion of each vertebral joint between T1-T2 to L5-S1 from extension to flexion.
Background Data: Poorly described studies have evaluated the reliability of this cheap and non-invasive device for measuring spinal range of motion. Pilot studies have however suggested that the device is not reliable enough for research purposes when measuring intervertabral range of motion.
Methods: A convenience sampling method recruited 5 healthy subjects and 5 examiners with at least 4 years of experience in manual care calibrated. Each rater measured each subject 5 times. 2’125 measurements were analyzed. Examiners where blinded to results. Data was extracted from the Spinalmouse® software and imported in SPSS 10.0. ICC (3,1) was used to calculate intrarater reliability and ICC (2,1) for interrater reliability.
Results: Intrarater reliability was 0.75 for 4 of the 85 (4.7%) ICC calculated (17 joints and 5 raters) showing insufficient reliability for clinical use in the conditions of observation for most examiners and levels. Between rater reliability was bellow clinical needs (ICC0.75) for all seventeen intervertabral segments.
Conclusions: Results of this study do not justify the use of SpinalMouse® to assess intervertabral range of motion.

Key words: Range of motion, Spine, Reliability, Measuring device.
presented at: Swiss School of Osteopathy
Date Accepted: 2004
Date Submitted: 4.4.2006 00:00:00
Type: undergraduate_project
Language: French
Submitted by:: 62
Pub-Identifier: 13743
Inst-Identifier: 1102
Keywords: Range of motion,Spine,Reliability
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