Abstract
A vacuum tissue compliance meter (VTCM) was used in the paraspinal region of 69 healthy children and 31 children with juvenile chronic arthritis (JCA), all aged between 6 and 17 years. The JCA children were subdivided into groups with inflamed knee(s) and ankles (n = 15) and those in remission (n = 16). Tissue compliance was assessed paraspinally at levels C6, T1, T3, T6, T10, L3 and L5 in order to determine whether the VTCM provides useful information regarding alterations in segmental compliance in the paraspinal region that is related to inflamed joints. Significantly less displacement was found in the JCA group than in the healthy group at levels T3 and T6. However, these areas could not be related to inflamed knees or ankles. No significant differences were found between the JCA groups with and without inflamed joints. We conclude that the VTCM did not show changes in paraspinal tissue compliance that could be segmentally related to inflamed joints in JCA. The hypothesis that inflamed joints may caus...
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