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Training Module: Accurately Weighing and Measuring: Technique

Measuring Child and Adolescent Stature
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7. Measuring Child and Adolescent Stature

The formal definition of the Frankfort horizontal plane is a line extension from the most inferior point of the orbital margin to the left tragion. The tragion is the deepest point in the notch superior to the tragus of the auricle.

When the head is positioned correctly, the Frankfort horizontal plane is parallel to the fixed headpiece.

Illustration of child measurement

Illustration © Nardella, M, Campo, L, Ogata, B, eds. Nutrition Interventions for Children with Special Health Care Needs, Olympia, WA, State Department of Health, 2001. 		     
    The child's line of vision is perpendicular to the headpiece of the measuring device
     
     
     
     
     


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