Methods Front and back digital photographs of patients with idiopathic scoliosis (Cobb>25o) were obtained. Shoulder, armpit and waist angles, in addition to trunk asymmetry indexes, were calculated on front and back photographs with Surgimap software. On AP radiographs Coronal Cobb angles and radiological shoulder imbalance using CRIA angle (Angle between horizontal line and a line drawn betwee...

Scoliosis is a very common problem and many children show some evidence of trunk asymmetry. Clinical significant scoliosis is less common, with one study showing the UK prevalence of curves greater than 20 degrees to be less than 1 in 1000 among children aged 6–14 years. Children with spinal deformity attend for outpatient assessment regularly and often undergo repeated radiographic examination...

BACKGROUND Chêneau-Brace treatment of a certain standard reduces the rate of surgery, prevents progression and in a certain patient population leads to marked improvement of Cobb angle and cosmetic appearance. During the last two years a patient refusing surgery with a double major curvature of initially 60 degrees showed a clear cosmetic improvement and a clear radiological progression at the ...

BACKGROUND CONTEXT Progressive scoliosis alters lung function by reducing chest wall compliance and excursion and rotating intrathoracic contents, producing an increasingly asymmetric lung size. The effect of this distortion on regional lung perfusion and ventilation has not been described in children with congenital and infantile forms of scoliosis. The severity of scoliosis is often described...

The distribution of continuous data can often be closely approximated by the normal distribution (1). For example, the distribution of Cobb angles for scoliotic females may be represented by a normal distribution with a notional mean (μ) = 15 degrees and a notional standard deviation (σ) = 5 degrees, and is shown in figure 1. By assuming that these Cobb angles follow a normal distribution, we a...

OBJECTIVE To compare the effect of Scientific Exercises Approach to Scoliosis (SEAS) exercises with "usual care" rehabilitation programmes in terms of the avoidance of brace prescription and prevention of curve progression in adolescent idiopathic scoliosis. DESIGN Prospective controlled cohort observational study. PATIENTS Seventy-four consecutive outpatients with adolescent idiopathic sco...

STUDY DESIGN Interobserver and intraobserver reliability study of improved method to evaluate radiographs of patients with scoliosis. OBJECTIVE To determine the reliability of a computer-assisted measurement protocol for evaluating Cobb angle and King et al classification. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA Evaluation of scoliosis radiographs is inherently unreliable because of technical and human ...