I guess you would translate as "distance from the chin to the sternum"


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... DMS* Distance menton-sternum Remarques ... Fiche documentaire pour première consultation
après un traumatisme d'accélération cranio-cervical rotation droite ...
med.svv.ch/fr/pdf/fragebogen_fr.pdf

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... distance menton-sternum (raideur cervicale). 4.3 : Articulations costo-vertébrales.
Mesure de l\'ampliation thoracique. 4.4 : Recherche ...
www-sante.ujf-grenoble.fr/sante/corpmed/ Corpus/corpus/question/rhum090.htm - 14k

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Les variations angulaires seront appréciées par des mesures linéaires. On mesurera ainsi la distance menton-sternum pour les mouvements de flexion - extension, la distance tragus-acromion pour les inclinaisons latérales et la distance menton-acromion pour les mouvements de rotations.

http://www.sofcok.com/abstract8.html

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The first measurement is \"en flexion\" and the second \"en extension\"

- Il existe un syndrôme rachidien cervical avec douleur en flexion antérieure et latérale droite, reproduisant la douleur cervico-brachiale droite ; il y a peu de raideur (distance menton-sternum à 1 cm en flexion et 19 cm en extension).

http://www.med.univ-rennes1.fr/section_rachis/obsv111.htm

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[PDF] Dokumentationsbogen f Erstkonsultation nach kranio-zervikalem ...
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... tion, il convient de mesurer la rotation et l’incli- naison latérale de la tête
en degrés, la flexion / extension selon la distance menton-sternum en cm. ...
www.saez.ch/pdf/2003/2003-08/2003-08-135.PDF

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Measure the distance from the chin to the sternum to determine size.


http://www.ketteringsurgical.com/cervical/pc.htm


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spinal movements can be measured with a tape measure

cervical motions:

distance between chin and sternum for flex/ext

http://www.ma.psu.edu/~pt/160goni2.htm

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. Cervical spine injury: Take the measurement by your fingers of the breadth of the neck. Take a newspaper, fold it for 8-10 times to the breadth of the fingers corresponding to the breadth of the neck and fold the ends of the newspaper to taper and tail in the ends. Take a long cloth or a duppatta or a pancha or a saree to make a long and a broad cloth. Enclose this newspaper fold and envelop it by folding and rolling into a long cloth and tie over the neck in such a manner that the broadest part of this newspaper splint comes in between the chin and the sternum, the milled ends are used to roll and cover the neck, to come over the posterior aspect of the neck and tie the cloth ends to the back of the neck to immobilise the cervical spine and send him to a major hospital.

http://www.kgmoas.com/july.htm