Side effects of braces; a cross-sectional survey
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Methods Design: cross-sectional survey. Methods: a specific questionnaire has been developed and validated to evaluate the following domains: skin, respiration, mobility, Activities of Daily Life. The questionnaire was sent by emails to 1551 idiopathic scoliosis or hyperkyphosis patients of age between 10 and 18, including also patients not braced to have a control group; response rate was 11.0%. Population: 170 patients, 75.3% females, age 14.4±2.0; 30 controls (CG) and 140 braced (BG) for 1.1 years, either with SpineCor (BG-S n=14) or rigid orthosis (BG-R n=126); the last group was also divided into TLSO (BG-T n=104) and LSO (BG-L n=22). We compared each answer and the average indexes of all domains.
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