Short Leg Brace for Knee Extensors Weakness (K. U. Short Leg Brace)

A One-Piece Laminated Knee Locking Short Leg Brace*

Brace technology thematic series: the progressive action short brace (PASB)

BACKGROUND The Progressive Action Short Brace (PASB) is a custom-made thoraco-lumbar-sacral orthosis (TLSO), devised in 1976 by Dr. Lorenzo Aulisa (Institute of Orthopedics at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Rome, Italy). The PASB was designed to overcome the limits imposed by the trunk anatomy. Indeed, the particular geometry of the brace is able to generate internal forces that m...

Different material for the SPORT concept brace: short term comparison of Sforzesco and Sibilla brace

Methods Design: retrospective pre-post study. Protocol: in our database we searched for all patients who were prescribed a Sibilla, or Sforzesco Brace, 21h per day or more for AIS, 30-35° Cobb, more than 10 years old at first evaluation, and no previous brace treatment. We compared data from the last visit before beginning the brace, and the first visit after 6 months of brace treatment. Sforze...

Correlation between in-brace radiographic correction and short time brace results

INTRODUCTION In-brace radiographic correction is considered a reliable check of brace efficacy. The aim of this study was to correlate the in-brace correction with the short term results of treatment (6 months). METHODS DESIGN pre-post study POPULATION 41 consecutive adolescent girls with idiopathic scoliosis who were prescribed a brace treatment (39 thoracic curves, 37±12°; 16 thoracolu...

The short leg in poliomyelitis.

In the literature on poliomyelitis references to the occurrence of leg shortening are frequent, particularly in the older text-books on orthopaedic surgery. These references are usually short statements unsupported by clinical details. It is perhaps not surprising that the opinions expressed are conflicting. I have found five papers in which studies of a series of patients have been made. Barr ...