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BACKGROUND: Little attention has been paid to the study of delayed sensory and motor reactions in adolescents with spinal deformities after surgical treatment. AIM: To study the reactions of the sensorimotor system of adolescents after surgical correction of spinal deformity. MATERIALS AND METHODS: The state of the sensory and motor spheres was analyzed in the immediate postoperative period in 21 adolescents with idiopathic scoliosis and in 13 with congenital deformities of the spine. A complex of methods involving global and stimulation electroneuromyography was used. The amplitude of motor, reflex potentials and interference electromyogram was evaluated at the maximum arbitrary tension of the lower limb muscles. Using an esthesiometer, thermal pain sensitivity in Th1S2 dermatomes was explored. In the process of surgical correction, intraoperative neuromonitoring was performed with registration of motor evoked potentials of the lower limb muscles. RESULTS: At the beginning of surgical intervention, high-amplitude, well-reproducible motor evoked potentials were obtained in all patients. In the group of patients with idiopathic scoliosis, compared with those with congenital deformities, smooth flow of surgery prevailed (p 0.05) without significant changes in motor potentials relative to the baseline (p 0.05). The number of observations of motor potentials decreased in the both groups and did not exceed 10%; the differences were not significant (p 0.05). The study of the reactions of the sensorimotor system in the immediate postoperative period triggered an increase in the amplitude of M-responses of m. rectus femoris, m. flexor digitorum brevis, m. gastrocnemius, and a decrease in the amplitude of the total EMG of m. rectus femoris. Values of H-reflexes remained at the preoperative level. The analysis of thermal pain sensitivity demonstrated the presence of a more pronounced reaction than that of the motor component. Changes in indicators of this type of sensitivity in groups of adolescents with idiopathic and congenital scoliosis were opposite. In idiopathic scoliosis, negative dynamics of the values prevailed, while in adolescents with congenital deformities of the spine, positive dynamics prevailed. This was because the amount of correction of the main and compensatory curves of the deformity in the group with idiopathic scoliosis was 48% greater (p = 0.0004) and 51% greater (p = 0.011), respectively. CONCLUSIONS: After surgical correction of spinal deformities in adolescents, the reactions of the sensory system of thermal pain sensitivity were more pronounced than those of the motor sphere.
BACKGROUND: Little attention has been paid to the study of delayed sensory and motor reactions in adolescents with spinal deformities after surgical treatment. AIM: To study the reactions of the sensorimotor system of adolescents after surgical correction of spinal deformity. MATERIALS AND METHODS: The state of the sensory and motor spheres was analyzed in the immediate postoperative period in 21 adolescents with idiopathic scoliosis and in 13 with congenital deformities of the spine. A complex of methods involving global and stimulation electroneuromyography was used. The amplitude of motor, reflex potentials and interference electromyogram was evaluated at the maximum arbitrary tension of the lower limb muscles. Using an esthesiometer, thermal pain sensitivity in Th1S2 dermatomes was explored. In the process of surgical correction, intraoperative neuromonitoring was performed with registration of motor evoked potentials of the lower limb muscles. RESULTS: At the beginning of surgical intervention, high-amplitude, well-reproducible motor evoked potentials were obtained in all patients. In the group of patients with idiopathic scoliosis, compared with those with congenital deformities, smooth flow of surgery prevailed (p 0.05) without significant changes in motor potentials relative to the baseline (p 0.05). The number of observations of motor potentials decreased in the both groups and did not exceed 10%; the differences were not significant (p 0.05). The study of the reactions of the sensorimotor system in the immediate postoperative period triggered an increase in the amplitude of M-responses of m. rectus femoris, m. flexor digitorum brevis, m. gastrocnemius, and a decrease in the amplitude of the total EMG of m. rectus femoris. Values of H-reflexes remained at the preoperative level. The analysis of thermal pain sensitivity demonstrated the presence of a more pronounced reaction than that of the motor component. Changes in indicators of this type of sensitivity in groups of adolescents with idiopathic and congenital scoliosis were opposite. In idiopathic scoliosis, negative dynamics of the values prevailed, while in adolescents with congenital deformities of the spine, positive dynamics prevailed. This was because the amount of correction of the main and compensatory curves of the deformity in the group with idiopathic scoliosis was 48% greater (p = 0.0004) and 51% greater (p = 0.011), respectively. CONCLUSIONS: After surgical correction of spinal deformities in adolescents, the reactions of the sensory system of thermal pain sensitivity were more pronounced than those of the motor sphere.
Background. The problem of the effect of adolescent idiopathic scoliosis on the functional condition of the lower limb muscles is still highlighted insufficiently.Aim. Analysis of the degree of involvement of the lower limb muscles in the pathological process in adolescents with idiopathic scoliosis.Methods. A comparative analysis has been made on the results of examination of 209 adolescents: 25 adolescents with idiopathic scoliosis; 170 normal adolescents; 14 adolescents with congenital scoliosis. The moments of force ofthe lower limb muscles were evaluated using dynamometric stands. Electrophysiological characteristics of the lower limb muscles were registered by the method of global and stimulation electroneuromyography.Results. The decrease in the amplitude of voluntary EMG of the femoral muscles in adolescents with idiopathic and congenital scoliosis is accompanied by dropping the moments of force relative to the values of the control group. The leg muscles are characterized by the preservation of the values of force at the level of normal test subjects under the conditions of the reduced voluntary EMG of high frequency. The amplitude of the M-responses of the indicator muscles and the values of the excitation propagation velocity along the motor fibers were also preserved. There are no statistically significant correlations between the amount of the spine deformity, on the one hand, and the values of asymmetry of the characteristics of the muscles in adolescents with idiopathic scoliosis.Conclusion. In adolescents with idiopathic scoliosis the function of femoral muscles is decreased, and there is no relationship between the amount of the spine deformity and the values of asymmetry of the characteristics of the lower limb muscles. The similar character of muscle function changes in adolescents with idiopathic and congenital scoliosis can testify that the cause of the observed changes is not the disease etiology, but the insufficient level of motor activity.
Introduction Significant success has been achieved in the development of new methods of treatment and rehabilitation of patients with idiopathic scoliosis, however, in many aspects of this problem there is no unambiguous approach to the choice of a correction method, assessment of treatment results.Objective To study the results of treatment of patients with idiopathic scoliosis according to X-ray and MSCT data, as well as according to the questionnaire – the SRS-30, depending on the degrees of the deformity, the type of scoliosis.Material and methods The study is retrospective, single center. Evidence level – IV. In 300 patients with idiopathic scoliosis of varying severity at the age from 10 to 50 years, the immediate and long-term results of elimination of spinal deformity by the method of internal transpedicular fixation were studied. In the study we used polypositional radiography, multislice computed tomography (MSCT) and questionnaire SRS-30.Results In patients with spinal deformity up to 60 ° a year after surgery, no loss of correction was found. After elimination of the deformity at 60–90 °, loss of correction up to 2 ° was observed in 3.6% of patients. In patients with deformity greater than 90 °, the average postoperative progression of scoliotic deformity was 3.5 ± 0.7 °. When examining patients after 2–5 years, there was no loss of correction in the group with initial spinal deformity up to 60 ° and in the group from 60–90 °. In patients with deformity greater than 90 °, the postoperative progression of scoliotic deformity in persons over 25 years old was 4.5 ± 0.6 °, which is associated with degenerative changes in the spine.Conclusion The study of immediate and long-term results showed that 1 year after treatment, 94% of patients rated the treatment result as excellent and good, in 6% – as satisfactory. All patients noted a positive effect of the cosmetic and functional results of treatment, while 56% believed that they looked “better” than before surgery (4 points), 44% rated the effect at 5 points and noted that they looked “much better”. Long-term results were studied in 50 patients 10 years after surgery.
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