The Influence of Surgical Correction of Idiopathic Scoliosis on the Function of Respiratory Muscles.

Background and objective: It is important to introduce respiratory exercises to the therapy of patients after the surgical treatment of adolescent idiopathic scoliosis. Surgical correction is the best way to prevent hypoxia in scoliosis, but whether pulmonary rehabilitation increases the effectiveness of scoliosis surgery has not yet been confirmed. Therefore, the aim of the study was to evaluate the function of respiratory muscles after surgical correction of idiopathic scoliosis.

Effect of Preoperative SpineCor® Treatment on Surgical Outcome in Idiopathic Scoliosis: An Observational Study.

BACKGROUND Idiopathic scoliosis is a three-dimensional deformity of the spine. We investigated the effect of preoperative treatment with SpineCor® dynamic brace on the efficiency of surgical correction from a posterior approach in adolescent idiopathic scoliosis. MATERIAL AND METHODS This was a retrospective observational study.

Effectiveness of Treatment of Idiopathic Scoliosis by SpineCor Dynamic Bracing with Special Physiotherapy Programme in SpineCor System.

Background: The SpineCor dynamic brace for the treatment of idiopathic scoliosis is designed to maintain the correct position of the spine and a new movement strategy for 20 hours per day. The SpineCor exercise system intensifies and complements the brace treatment. This study evaluated the effectiveness of a comprehensive treatment of idiopathic scoliosis involving the SpineCor system.

[Return to physical activity and duration of exemption from physical education classes after mild and moderate head injury in children at school age].

Goal: An attempt to explain the correlation between exemption from physical education classes at school, the length of their duration and the return to physical activity of children with mild and moderate head injury.

Material And The Method: 55 patients the age of 7 to 17 years treated in two hospital centers due to mild and moderate head injury. The results were interpreted basing on an author's survey conducted among respondents in 1-2 weeks after the injury and after 12 weeks from sustained head injury.

Assesment scores of functional efficiency in hip osteoathritis.

One of the fundamental problem to solved, connected with a way of proceeding in hip osteoarthritis is appropriate selection of diagnosis methods. Various scores helps in assessment of functional efficiency of the hip. They are applied on variable stages of diagnosis process, assumed way of treatment included physiotherapy and to analysis achieved results of treatment.

Alternative methods of conservative treatment of idiopathic scoliosis.

Scoliosis is a deformity of the spine known since Hippocrates times. The value of certain methods of conservative treatment remains controversial. Some of them have only a psychological value both for the physician and his or her caregivers.