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Cerebrospinal Fluid Research BioMed Central Short paper Open Access The effect of whole body position on lumbar cerebrospinal fluid opening pressure 1,2 2 2 Pasiri Sithinamsuwan* , Nakorn Sithinamsuwan , Sirakarn Tejavanija , Chesda Udommongkol1,2 and Samart Nidhinandana1,2 Address: 1Division of Neurology, Phramongkutklao Hospital and College of Medicine, Bangkok, 10400, Thailand and 2Department of Medicine, Phramongkutklao Hospital and College of Medicine, Bangkok, 10400, Thailand Email: Pasiri Sithinamsuwan* - pasiripmk@; Nakorn Sithinamsuwan - nink_md@; Sirakarn Tejavanija - tab25380@; Chesda Udommongkol - c.udommongkol@.au; Samart Nidhinandana - samart2074@yahoo.co.uk * Corresponding author Published: 2 July 2008 Received: 24 February 2008 Accepted: 2 July 2008 Cerebrospinal Fluid Research 2008, 5:11 doi:10.1186/1743-8454-5-11 This article is available from: /content/5/1/11 © 2008 Sithinamsuwan et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract We compared cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) opening pressure measurements in the lumbar subarachnoid space between the flexed position (F-OP) and relaxed position (R-OP) in recumbent