I've always known that the curvature could vary between a standing and supine xrays..
Well, I had to have a chest/abdomen/pelvic CT recently. They usually take one or two scans as an 'orientation' view so the tech knows where to start and stop scanning for the axial images.
I was quite suprised to see how small my major curve looks on the frontal view of the orientation scan. It was taken early in the morning (when I feel 'strighter') and I had my arms above my head. The difference is so drastic I guess my curve is still very flexible even though I don't feel as flexible as I once was.
I thought this was interesting and wanted to share.
spine.jpg is my full standing xray and ctspine is the ct orientation scan.
Well, I had to have a chest/abdomen/pelvic CT recently. They usually take one or two scans as an 'orientation' view so the tech knows where to start and stop scanning for the axial images.
I was quite suprised to see how small my major curve looks on the frontal view of the orientation scan. It was taken early in the morning (when I feel 'strighter') and I had my arms above my head. The difference is so drastic I guess my curve is still very flexible even though I don't feel as flexible as I once was.
I thought this was interesting and wanted to share.
spine.jpg is my full standing xray and ctspine is the ct orientation scan.
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