BACKGROUND There has been an increasing popularity of searching health related information online in recent years. Despite that considerable amount of scoliosis patients have shown interest in obtaining scoliosis information through Internet, previous studies have demonstrated poor quality of online information. However, this conclusion may vary depending on region and culture. Since China has ...

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...

Severe rigid curves pose a considerable challenge to the treating spine surgeon. In our practice, approximately 30%-40% of patients with scoliosis present late with severe rigid scoliosis (>90° and <30% correction on bending films). Controversy still exists with regard to the ideal surgical strategy for correcting these rigid curves. Rigid scoliosis often presents in the form of either sharp an...

There are few conservative treatment options for adult patients with idiopathic scoliosis who are status post-fusion surgery. These typically include pharmacologic pain management, epidural injections, and generalized CAM treatments such as massage and chiropractic manipulation in the non-fused areas of the spine. The purpose of this study was to compare the post-treatment results in an adult p...

Teenagers in the modern era often have improper sitting positions, which will affect posture abnormalities, namely scoliosis. Scoliosis occurs due to many factors, such as information obtained from knowledge. In addition, there are nutritional factors calcium intake because a deficiency bone density. This study aims understand relationship between knowledge and with risk of scoliosis adolescent...

Medical robots have been applied to a variety of areas and have great potential to radically change the mode of surgical operations and conventional medical-care as part of a more information-intensive environment that exploits the complementary strengths of computer-based technology. Scoliosis is an unnatural curvature or deformity of the spine with lateral deviations from the normally vertica...

BACKGROUND Lenke 5C type adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS) with a Cobb angle of over 30 degrees has high risk of progression. The need for corrective surgeries for degenerative lumbar scoliosis has been increasing these days and some of those cases are pre-existing type scoliosis. However, it is said to be difficult to differentiate pre-existing type scoliosis from de novo type scoliosis. T...

BACKGROUND Due to recent improvements in colorectal cancer survival, patient-reported outcomes, including health-related quality of life and satisfaction with care, have become well-established endpoints to determine the impact of the disease on the lives of patients.The aim of this study is to determine prospectively, in a cohort of colorectal cancer incident cases: a) health-related quality o...

PURPOSE This prospective pilot study aimed to investigate patients' perception of information exchange and its associations with patient satisfaction, participation and safety at inpatient oncology wards. METHODS AND SAMPLE Consecutive patients with cancer who spent ≥3 days at an oncological inpatient ward at the Department of Oncology, Karolinska University Hospital during the study period (...