Recent Advances in Scoliosis

Grivas, Theodoros B

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“…Early-onset scoliosis like mine can result in larger curves than more common adolescent scoliosis because the unbalanced growth of the spine lasts longer. If untreated, juvenile scoliosis can cause serious cardiopulmonary complications and premature death [18]. In comparison untreated late-onset scoliosis causes little physical impairment other than back pain and cosmetic concerns [19].…”

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Living with a Severe Spinal Deformity: An Innovative and Personal Patient Account of Self-Management Using a Corset, Postural Correction, and Exercises

Gogala¹

2021

Spinal Deformities in Adolescents, Adults and Older Adults

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Conservative treatment of scoliosis using brace and exercises usually ends when growth stops. Scoliosis may, however, deteriorate in adulthood especially when curves are larger. The author decided to try to help himself when he was 43 years old. He had been diagnosed with juvenile idiopathic scoliosis when he was 7 years old, but his treatment with a Milwaukee brace ended when he was 11 years old. When his growth ended, the author had a severe scoliosis with a thoracic curve of around 100°Cobb. In adulthood, a corset from fabric with steel reinforcements was used for part of the day intermittently which also included days without wear. To derotate the rib cage, pressure to the rib hump was applied from behind. After some years it was obvious from photo documentation that some derotation had been achieved. The rib hump is smaller; ribs can now be seen on the concave side where they were not seen previously, and a skin mark which was located laterally before moved to the front side. Curves to the side as seen in anteroposterior X-ray images, however, did not improve. But the therapy proved helpful as marked cosmetic improvement was achieved and curve increase was most likely prevented.

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Living with a Severe Spinal Deformity: An Innovative and Personal Patient Account of Self-Management Using a Corset, Postural Correction, and Exercises

Gogala¹

2021

Spinal Deformities in Adolescents, Adults and Older Adults

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Adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS) non-operative treatment in HUCSK of Kosova- a 7 month study

Lokaj

2020

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Introduction: Scoliosis is defined as a deviation from midline in the frontal plane, and rotation of the apex of the curve from more than 10 degrees, in AP radiography. Treatment of scoliosis is based in type of scoliosis, region of scoliotic curve, curve magnitude, bone maturity, gender, risk of scoliotic curve progression, other symptoms like and opinion of the patient about his spine shape. Treatment choices of AIS are observation, physical therapy, corsets and surgical treatment. Purpose: Research of patients with AIS focusing in its characteristics, clinical presentation, diagnosis and a detalized research in non-operative treatment of AIS focusing in treatment choices and criteria of treatment. Material and methods: The study is based in retrospective research September 2018- March 2019 (7 months) in HUCSK- Specialized outpatient clinics of Orthopaedics. Data is taken with special permission from Personal Data Protection Office and Ethico-Professional Commity from specialized outpatient clinics of Orthopaedics systems archive for patients with AIS of 10-18 years old. Results: During September 2018-March 2019 period in specialized outpatient clinics of Orthopaedics-HUCSK, 250 cases with AIS of 10-18 years old with Cobb angle more than 10 degrees; are diagnosed and treated. The disease has a prevalence 1.40%. Based in gender women are more affected than men in a ratio 2.01:1. Most common form of AIS is the one that affects thoraco-lumbal region of spine with 60.8% of cases. There has been found a correlation between scoliosis and kyphosis in higher levels of spine. About 89.7% of cases are light scoliotic curves according to Cobb angle and the female \\ male ratio increases at women with an increase of Cobbs angle. Patients are treated with one or more forms of non-operative treatment: observation 10.4% of cases, observation and physical therapy 89.6% of cases and observation, physical treatment and corset TLSO 25.6% of cases. Cases that have undergone three forms of non-operative treatment are with Cobb angle of more than 20 degrees.

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An evaluation of automatic marking of anatomical landmarks for back surface deformity analysis

Parittotakapron

Sira-uksorn

Chaichanadee

et al. 2016

2016 7th International Conference of Information and Communication Technology for Embedded Systems (IC-ICTES)

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Back deformity studies require marks or labels which are attached on patient's body in order to measure and evaluate the level of severity. Manually marking of anatomical landmarks on two dimensional (2D) image can reduce timeconsuming in traditional process but there is difficulty in 2D-visually locating the anatomical landmarks in some patients. Currently, 3D scanners are inexpensive and become widespread in various applications. The advantage of depth information from 3D scanner can assist to locate anatomical landmarks for back surface deformity analysis. In this study, automatically marking methods are assessed and compared among themselves and manual method. The experiments are tested on both phantom and humans.

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Recent Advances in Scoliosis

Cited by 3 publications

References 203 publications

Living with a Severe Spinal Deformity: An Innovative and Personal Patient Account of Self-Management Using a Corset, Postural Correction, and Exercises

Living with a Severe Spinal Deformity: An Innovative and Personal Patient Account of Self-Management Using a Corset, Postural Correction, and Exercises

Adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS) non-operative treatment in HUCSK of Kosova- a 7 month study

An evaluation of automatic marking of anatomical landmarks for back surface deformity analysis

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