Diagnosis and Management of Postural Disorders
A special issue of Diagnostics (ISSN 2075-4418). This special issue belongs to the section "Medical Imaging and Theranostics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 September 2025 | Viewed by 1633
Special Issue Editor
Interests: evidence-based practice; quality of health care; meta-research; practice guidelines; person-centered care
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Dear Colleagues,
“There is no right treatment without right diagnosis”. But an overdiagnosis or wrong diagnosis may lead to unnecessary treatment, overtreatment or harmful treatment. The problem of spinal deformities, especially as regards screening tests and screening programmes, is without doubt one example of this phenomena. Today, the WHO definition of health as “a state of complete physical, social and mental wellbeing, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity” is commonly recognised. The three commonly used proxies of health include functional limitation and subjective health, not merely morbidity. Diagnosing spinal deformities has gone a long way from anthropometric measurements, through body image assessments, to diagnosing mental health and subjective wellbeing.
This Special Issue is aimed as being a platform for discussion on diagnostics, as well as screening and prognosis, of people suffering from spinal deformities, or those at risk of such, from the perspective of the person. We are interested in diagnosing spinal deformities but also in diagnosing peoples’ lived experiences related to spinal deformities. As spinal deformities we understand scoliosis of various types, affecting people throughout their lifespan, as well as other medical and subjective problems related to the spine, such as kyphosis and so-called “bad posture” or “faulty posture”. Diagnosis and diagnostics may be related to those suffering but also to their significant others.
Therefore, papers reporting diagnostic imaging and laboratory testing, but also measures of subjective health status such as inventories and questionnaires, as well as qualitative studies related to issues such as lived experiences, are anticipated, welcomed and awaited.
Dr. Maciej Płaszewski
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Scoliosis
- Spinal deformity
- Kyphosis
- Faulty posture
- Bad posture
- Children
- Adolescents
- Adults
- Screening
- Prevention
- Outcomes
- Person-centred outcomes
- Diagnostic imaging
- Function
- Functional tests
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