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These cases will focus on the way to analyze and understand disturbed spino-pelvic balance in adults for clinical practice.
After describing the main parameters for sagittal balance assessment, we will describe in details 3 clinical situations: balanced, compensated and imbalanced.
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Toquart, A., Barrey, C.Y. (2019). Parameters of Spino-Pelvic Balance, Etiology and Pathogenesis of Disturbed Spino-Pelvic Balance. In: Meyer, B., Rauschmann, M. (eds) Spine Surgery. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98875-7_25
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