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Body appearance and quality of life in adult patients with adolescent idiopathic scoliosis treated with a brace or under observation alone during adolescence.
Spine (Phila Pa 1976)
April 2012
*Department of Orthopedics, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Göteborg, Sweden.
Study Design: The Scoliosis Research Society (SRS) brace study (published in the JBJS-A, 1995) was comprised of patients with adolescent idiopathic scoliosis with moderate curve sizes (25°-35°). Forty observed and 37 braced patients (77% of the original group) attended a follow-up, a mean of 16 years after onset of maturity.
Objective: To analyze whether the subjectively evaluated present body appearance affects outcome as measured by quality of life in adult patients, previously treated by observation alone (nonbraced) or with a brace during adolescence.
Health-related quality of life in untreated versus brace-treated patients with adolescent idiopathic scoliosis: a long-term follow-up.
Spine (Phila Pa 1976)
January 2010
Department of Orthopedics, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Göteborg, Sweden.
Study Design: The previous Scoliosis Research Society brace study (JBJS-A, 1995) included patients with adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS) with moderate curve sizes (25 degrees -35 degrees). The Swedish patients in this study were examined in a long-term follow-up.
Objective: The aim was to analyze and compare quality of life in adulthood between AIS patients who were only observed or treated with a brace during adolescence.
A consensus approach toward the standardization of back pain definitions for use in prevalence studies.
Spine (Phila Pa 1976)
January 2008
Population Health Research Unit, (URESP) Research Centre of the Laval University Affiliated Hospital, Québec, QC, Canada.
Study Design: A modified Delphi study conducted with 28 experts in back pain research from 12 countries.
Objective: To identify standardized definitions of low back pain that could be consistently used by investigators in prevalence studies to provide comparable data.
Summary Of Background Data: Differences in the definition of back pain prevalence in population studies lead to heterogeneity in study findings, and limitations or impossibilities in comparing or summarizing prevalence figures from different studies.
A prospective study of brace treatment versus observation alone in adolescent idiopathic scoliosis: a follow-up mean of 16 years after maturity.
Spine (Phila Pa 1976)
September 2007
Department of Orthopedics, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Göteborg, Sweden.
Study Design: The Swedish patients included in the previous SRS brace study were invited to take part in a long-term follow-up.
Objective: To investigate the rate of scoliosis surgery and progression of curves from baseline as well as after maturity.
Summary Of Background Data: Brace treatment was shown to be superior to electrical muscle stimulation, as well as observation alone, in the original SRS brace study.
Spinal range of motion, muscle endurance, and back pain and function at least 20 years after fusion or brace treatment for adolescent idiopathic scoliosis: a case-control study.
Spine (Phila Pa 1976)
February 2006
Department of Orthopaedics, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Göteborg University, Göteborg, Sweden.
Study Design: A consecutive series of patients with adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS), treated between 1968 and 1977 before 21 years of age with either distraction and fusion using Harrington rods (ST, n = 156; 145 females and 11 males) or with brace (BT, n = 127; 122 females and 5 males), were followed at least 20 years after completion of the treatment.
Objectives: To determine the long-term outcome in terms of spinal mobility and muscle strength and its possible correlations to present back pain and function in patients surgically or brace treated for AIS.
Summary Of Background Data: Few reports on long-term outcome on these variables have previously been presented for this group of patients.
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