Exploratory Study Examining Clinical Measures of Adiposity Risk for Predicting Obesity in Adolescents with Physical Disabilities.

Objective: The purposes of this study were to assess the accuracy of clinical measures for predicting adiposity when compared with a criterion standard of body fat percentage measured by dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry and to determine the most appropriate cut points for classifying obesity for each measure in adolescents with physical disability.

Design: Body mass index, triceps skinfolds, and waist, arm, and leg circumferences were collected on 29 adolescents aged 14-17 yrs with spinal cord injury, cerebral palsy, or spina bifida. Percentage of body fat was measured using dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry.

Interrater reliability of the international standards for neurological classification of spinal cord injury in youths with chronic spinal cord injury.

Objectives: To evaluate the interrater reliability of the International Standards for Neurological Classification of Spinal Cord Injury (ISNCSCI) in children with chronic spinal cord injury (SCI), and to define the lower age limit at which the examinations have clinical utility.

Design: Repeated measures, multicenter reliability study.

Setting: Two U.