Aim To evaluate the effectiveness of nighttime bracing in AIS. Methods: Inclusion criteria were patients diagnosed with AIS and skeletal immature. With an apex of the primary curve from TH7 and below and with a Cobb angel between 2045 degrees. The patients were asked to wear the brace at least 7-8 hours pr. night. No other previous treatments were accepted and a follow up at least 6 months out ...

Population 56 consecutive AIS patients from our prospective database (39 female; age 13±1, Cobb 21±4° ; ATR 11±4° ): 28 patients (19 females; age 13±1; TRACE score 6; Cobb angle 22±4° ; ATR 12±4° , Risser 0-3) treated by Spinecor 20/24 hours; 28 patients (20 females; age 13±1; TRACE score 5; Cobb angle 20±4° ; ATR 9±3° , Risser 0-3) treated by SEAS exercises.The short term results of treatment ...

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...

S OF PAPERS 229 72 Effects of feeding various digestible lysine intake levels by Cobb 500 broiler breeder hens on reproductive performance. L. Mejia*SC, C. D. McDaniel, and A. Corzo, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State. A study was conducted to examine the reproductive parameters of Cobb 500 broiler breeder hens fed different daily consumption levels of dig lysine (mg/hen/day) on th...

Methods and materials Since 1999, 110 patients were admitted for conservative treatment of Scheuermann juvenile kyphosis. The number of out-patient treatments were not accessible. Four patients (4% of hospitalized patients) underwent surgical treatment. The age of surgery was 16, 16, 17, and 18 years respectively. The sagittal thoracic T4-T12 Cobb angle was 80°, 85°, 80°, and 100° respectively....

The study was conducted to investigate the effects of a multi-enzyme complex (Rovabio Excel) containing carbohydrolase activities on the performance of broiler chickens. Test diets were formulated to include 12% corn distillers dried grain with solubles (DDGS). In total, 1200 Cobb 500 broiler males were randomly assigned to 8 replicate pens of 50 birds per treatment and grown to 45 d of age usi...

Cobb syndrome is a rare entity characterized by cutaneous vascular lesions and arteriovenous malformations in the spine, both in the same metamere. This syndrome is also known as cutaneous vertebral medullary angiomatosis, cutaneomeningospinal angiomatosis, and spinal arterial metameric disorder. We report the case of a male infant diagnosed with Cobb syndrome who was treated surgically. The pr...

Methods Study design: retrospective controlled study. Population: Rigid Brace Groups (RBGs) 20 patients (16 female), age 13±1, Cobb 24±5°, ATR 8±3°, TRACE score 7, Risser 0-3. Spinecor Group (SG): 41 patients (33 females) age 13±1, Cobb angle 24±5°, ATR 8±3°, TRACE score 6, Risser 0-3. Both groups were treated with a full-time brace (18 to 23 hours per day upon initial prescription). Clinical a...

BACKGROUND The Walter Reed Visual Assessment Scale (WRVAS) was designed to measure physical deformity as perceived by patients with idiopathic scoliosis. Previous studies have shown that the instrument has excellent internal consistency and a high correlation with the radiological magnitude of scoliotic curves. Nonetheless, it is not known whether the scale can discriminate between the various ...

A comparative study was conducted to find out the differences in contribution of carcass cuts in meat production from indigenous breeds such as Vanraja, Aseel and Kadaknath breeds with respect to a broiler strain, Cobb-400. The primal cuts of Cobb-400 had significantly (P<0.05) higher weight than all indigenous breeds. Among indigenous breeds Aseel exhibited higher weight of all primal cuts exc...