Scottie Dog Summary

As stated before the Scottie dogs helps determine accurate lumbar obliquity. If the superior and inferior articular process (ears and legs) are in profile which together make up the zygapophyseal joint spaces which that too will be demonstrated, and the pedicles (eyes) are seen halfway between the midpoint of the vertebral bodies and the lateral border of the vertebral bodies, you would have a properly positioned oblique lumbar (McQuillen Martensen, 2015, p. 428). When trying to determine if the patient is over or under rotated, the pedicle (eye)