Aesthetic appearance assessment in adolescents with idiopathic scoliosis

Introduction. Aesthetic appearance is one of the major concerns in adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS) patients and its improvement main treatment's goals. Poor trunk associated with reduced quality life adolescents scoliosis. Aim. To review instruments that have been created to evaluate poor these children. Material methods. PubMed database Consortium Libraries Serbia for Unified Acquisition - KoBSON were searched using keywords "adolescent scoliosis", "aesthetic appearance", "evaluation" "questionnaires". Results. In order aesthetic impairment patients, various created. They can roughly be classed as assess subjective perception or objective appearance. The first group consists primarily self-administered questionnaires include an component, such Scoliosis Research Society 22 (SRS-22) questionnaire Italian Spinal Youth Quality Life (ISYQoL) questionnaire, well visual scales based on patient-completed drawings, Walter Reed Assessment Scale, Appearance Questionnaire, Trunk Perception Scale. asymmetry use pictures, TRACE (Trunk Aestethic Clinical Evaluation), POTSI (Posterior Symmetry Index) ATSI (Anterior Index), 2-dimensional digital photography, surface topography all used profile subjects, allowing evaluation. Conclusion. Each clinical examination should a specific assessment asymmetry. Various developed goal decreasing x-ray radiation exposure patients.