A Brazilian Portuguese cross-cultural adaptation of the modified JOA scale for myelopathy.

Objectives:: To develop a version of the modified Japanese Orthopaedic Association (mJOA) scale that had been translated into Portuguese and cross-culturally adapted for the Brazilian population.

Methods:: The well-established process of forward-backward translation was employed along with cross-cultural adaptation.

Results:: Three bilingual translators (English and native Portuguese) performed the forward translation of the mJOA scale from English to Portuguese based on iterative discussions used to reach a consensus translation.