Introduction: Surgical treatments for early onset scoliosis typically require multiple operations and many complications. A more fl exible growing rod construct might result in a more fl exible spine with fewer complications. Polymer rods (polyetheretherketone, PEEK) are relatively fl exible in bending, and therefore might allow for greater range of motion (ROM) during treatment. The purpose of...

Background. The state of the cervical spine in patients with Scheuermanns disease has still not been studied enough. This concerns magnitude lordosis norm and juvenile kyphosis both pre- postoperative periods, as well relationship these changes spinopelvic parameters. There is almost no information on correlation between development proximal transitional kyphosis.
 Aim study. To determine ...

BACKGROUND The durability of adult spinal deformity surgery remains problematic. Revision rates above 20 % have been reported, with a range of causes including wound infection, nonunion and adjacent level pathology. While some of these complications have been amenable to changes in patient selection or surgical technique, Proximal Junctional Kyphosis (PJK) remains an unresolved challenge. This ...

Mucopolysaccharidosis type II (Hunter syndrome) is an X-linked lysosomal storage disorder. A novel gross deletion in the iduronate-2-sulfatase (IDS) gene was found in a 6-year-old boy with Hunter syndrome. The phenotype of the patient was severe, including joint stiffness, kyphosis, hepatomegaly, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, moderate mental retardation, and bilateral hearing loss. The 38.8 kb g...

Introduction. Kyphosis is a deformity of the spine characterized by excessive backward curvature thoracic spine. The normal range kyphosis in teenagers 20 - 40 degrees, and diagnosis hyper-kyphosis beyond 45 degrees. aim this review was to assess magnitude effects various corrective exercises on kyphotic angle reduction. Material Methods. Web Science PubMed were searched retrieve relevant liter...

BACKGROUND: Slipped capital femoral epiphysis is one of the most severe diseases hip joint in children and characterized by displacement proximal epiphysis, occurring as a result decrease mechanical strength its growth plate. Some pathological processes joints lumbosacral spine cause changes position (vergence) pelvis sagittal plane development degenerative dystrophic diseases. The analysis spi...

[Purpose] The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of thoracic extension exercise on scapular alignment and thoracic kyphosis angle. [Subjects and Methods] Ten subjects with a kyphosis angle ≥40° and aged between 20 and 26 years participated in this study. This study investigated the scapular forward distance and thoracic kyphosis angle before and after the thoracic extension ex...