PURPOSE Non-compliance with foot abduction bracing in children with clubfeet treated with the Ponseti method is the leading risk factor for deformity recurrence. A dynamic foot abduction orthosis is believed to result in improved compliance, fewer skin complications, and fewer recurrences. A case-control trial was conducted to test this hypothesis. METHODS A prospective cohort of children wit...

Depending on the tectonic activities, most buildings subject to multiple earthquakes, while a single design earthquake is suggested in most seismic design codes. Perhaps, the lack of easy assessment to second shock information and sometimes use of inappropriate methods in estimating these features cause successive earthquakes mainly were ignored in the analysis procedure. In order to overcome t...

Objectives There is a short period during rapid growth when a scoliosis brace is most effective. In standard practice, the inbrace correction is not measured during brace casting. The first assessment of the in-brace correction in the follow-up clinic may trigger brace adjustment for improved spinal alignment resulting in delay of effective treatment and increased number of radiographs. The obj...

Bracing for juvenile and adolescent idiopathic scoliosis has a long history of use. Effectiveness of conventional rigid bracing is highly variable, likely depending upon the skill of the practitioner, the type of brace selected, and the type of scoliosis being treated. In review of various bracing studies, Dolan and Weinstein found that bracing does not result in superior clinical outcomes comp...

Harvesting of forest raw materials, namely felling and bucking log on areas, is the first main stage in logging chain. One problems this industry shortage highly qualified specialists-operators machines, including feller-delimbing-bucking machines (harvesters). Operators who have just come to or insufficient experience (have worked for less than a year) cannot correctly configure harvesters, as...

introduction: knee orthosis is used in different cases and can be seen pistoning movement in all orthosis. the purpose of this study was to evaluate the effects of increasing mass knee brace and two kinds of silicon and polyethylene (pe) pad on pistoning movement during walking, on health subject. material and methods: a total of 20 healthy volunteers, including 10 men and 10 women, with an ave...

Method The brace compliance monitoring system was used to monitor how new brace subjects used their braces during first 4 months. Six AIS subjects (5 F, 1 M), between 10 and 13 years old (12.3 + 1.0 years), prescribed TLSO with full time wear (22 hours per day) were monitored starting at the beginning of their brace treatment. The Cobb angles were measured at the initial visit, 4 weeks after th...

BACKGROUND Chêneau and Matthias introduced in 1979 a brace concept inspired in casting. The brace was initially named "CTM" from Chêneau-Toulouse-Münster. The name "CTM" is still popular in France but "Chêneau-type brace" is its common name in the rest of the world. Principles to construct this brace were originally based on anatomical descriptions rather than biomechanics, and its standard is ...