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. 2024 Jul 12;11(7):849. doi: 10.3390/children11070849

Table 4.

Relationship between anthropometric values and the occurrence of posture irregularities (Spearman’s rank correlations).

Body Weight BMI FM% FFM PMM Lower Limb RIGHT Lower Limb LEFT
RL FM% RL FFM RL PMM LL FM% LL FFM LL PMM
Body posture −0.184 −0.232 −0.125 −0.151 −0.153 −0.052 −0.135 −0.144 −0.111 −0.121 −0.132
Asymmetry −0.052 −0.07 −0.16 −0.02 −0.032 −0.004 −0.112 −0.099 −0.121 −0.08 −0.069
Sitting body posture 0.178 0.141 −0.00 0.188 0.179 0.050 0.138 0.144 −0.020 0.174 0.183
Spine Cervical 0.135 0.028 0.059 0.127 0.126 −0.031 0.144 0.136 −0.005 0.159 0.142
Thoracic 0.133 −0.009 −0.038 0.162 0.159 −0.020 0.132 0.147 0.004 0.139 0.155
Lumbar 0.000 0.036 0.036 0.003 0.001 0.044 0.022 0.022 0.116 −0.009 -0.001
Pelvis −0.055 −0.080 −0.012 −0.056 −0.055 0.033 −0.086 −0.084 0.027 −0.062 −0.062
Thoracic cage: −0.016 −0.060 −0.160 0.027 0.020 −0.038 −0.001 0.014 −0.121 0.014 0.031
Hips: 0.069 0.002 −0.122 0.105 0.101 −0.141 0.094 0.103 −0.116 0.066 0.085
Knees: −0.356 −0.161 −0.064 −0.361 −0.357 −0.075 −0.297 −0.309 −0.061 −0.302 −0.310
Feet −0.236 −0.108 −0.052 −0.232 −0.231 −0.049 −0.205 −0.195 −0.074 −0.214 −0.203
Group I
Body posture −0.309 −0.318 −0.244 −0.280 −0.286 −0.008 −0.312 −0.304 −0.153 −0.299 −0.293
Asymmetry 0.029 0.003 −0.137 0.066 0.052 0.098 −0.063 −0.046 −0.004 −0.049 −0.022
Sitting body posture 0.089 0.194 0.060 0.072 0.062 0.129 −0.012 0.000 0.072 0.020 0.037
Spine Cervical 0.217 0.140 0.081 0.186 0.051 0.201 0.203 0.086 0.184 0.183 0.187
Thoracic 0.109 −0.030 −0.071 0.126 0.065 0.079 0.111 0.078 0.054 0.088 0.122
Lumbar −0.243 −0.121 −0.037 −0.237 0.121 −0.253 −0.240 0.098 −0.259 −0.246 -0.242
Pelvis −0.206 −0.215 −0.092 −0.206 −0.209 0.036 −0.272 −0.263 −0.007 −0.259 −0.249
Thoracic cage: −0.036 0.048 −0.125 −0.012 −0.019 0.086 −0.054 −0.039 −0.001 −0.043 −0.018
Hips: 0.104 0.017 −0.035 0.104 0.108 −0.019 0.066 0.079 −0.022 0.071 0.092
Knees: −0.480 −0.264 −0.033 −0.469 −0.463 0.035 −0.398 −0.414 −0.056 −0.368 −0.392
Feet −0.404 −0.293 −0.120 −0.386 −0.379 −0.087 −0.321 −0.328 −0.198 −0.292 −0.302
Group II
Body posture 0.109 −0.091 0.145 0.109 0.118 −0.091 0.164 0.155 0.018 0.173 0.155
Asymmetry −0.271 −0.336 −0.394 −0.167 −0.187 −0.251 −0.232 −0.212 −0.468 −0.168 −0.168
Sitting body posture: 0.288 0.000 −0.265 0.356 0.333 −0.235 0.303 0.311 −0.348 0.372 0.379
Spine Cervical 0.091 −0.127 0.102 0.110 −0.130 0.085 0.090 −0.091 0.174 0.151 0.095
Thoracic: 0.252 0.016 −0.080 0.315 −0.316 0.263 0.259 −0.212 0.311 0.310 0.303
Lumbar 0.411 0.201 0.144 0.404 −0.228 0.453 0.444 0.089 0.365 0.366 0.401
Pelvis 0.201 0.110 0.148 0.215 0.220 −0.057 0.201 0.192 0.043 0.249 0.225
Thoracic cage: 0.145 −0.064 −0.195 0.161 0.161 −0.199 0.153 0.161 −0.287 0.194 0.200
Hips: 0.104 0.049 −0.337 0.147 0.122 −0.282 0.184 0.196 −0.251 0.117 0.141
Knees: −0.209 −0.051 −0.077 −0.209 −0.207 −0.230 −0.114 −0.128 −0.061 −0.191 −0.185
Feet −0.123 0.049 −0.163 −0.094 −0.094 −0.276 −0.049 −0.020 −0.158 −0.109 −0.074