Supine fulcrum bending test and in-cast correction of Scheuermann's thoracic kyphosis
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Materials and methods From 2001 to 2007, eighty-six adolescents were conservatively treated for Scheuermann juvenile kyphosis of thoracic location. Charts of 55 patients, 39 boys and 16 girls, were accessible. The age was from 11 to 18 years, with a mean of 14.6 ± 1.6 years. The location of hyper-kyphosis was middle thoracic in most cases, apart from five patients with a thoraco-lumbar location. In 18 patients, a mild non-progressive scoliotic curvature was present; it did not exceed a Cobb angle measurement of 25°. A clinically visible scoliosis concerned 50% of girls and 20% of boys. The scoliosis pattern did not follow any currently used scoliosis classification; the curvature was not harmonious.
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