Importance of patient-reported individualized goals when assessing outcomes for adult spinal deformity (ASD): initial experience with a Patient Generated Index (PGI).

Background Context: Current metrics to assess patients' health-related quality of life (HRQOL) may not reflect a true change in the patients' specific perception of what is most important to them.

Purpose: This study aimed to describe the initial experience of a Patient Generated Index (PGI) in which patients create their own outcome domains.

Study Design: This is a single-center prospective study.

The Interobserver and Intraobserver Reliability of the Sanders Classification Versus the Risser Stage.

Background: Estimation of skeletal maturity, classically performed using Risser sign, plays a crucial role in the treatment of AIS. Recent data, however, has shown the simplified Tanner-Whitehouse (Sanders) classification, based on an anteriorposterior (AP) hand radiographs, to correlate more closely to the rapid growth phase and thus curve progression. This study evaluated the interobserver and intraobserver reliability of the Sanders and Risser classifications among clinicians at different levels of training.

Delayed Postoperative Neurologic Deficits in Spinal Deformity Surgery.

Study Design: A cross-sectional survey of surgeon members of the Scoliosis Research Society (SRS).

Objective: This study sought to characterize the incidence, clinical presentation, diagnostic workup, treatment, and neurologic prognosis following delayed postoperative neurologic deficit (DPND) in patients undergoing spinal deformity surgery.

Summary Of Background Data: DPND is a potentially devastating condition following spinal surgery, characterized by the development of a neurological deficit within hours or days of the surgical procedure.

Patients with chronic non-specific low back pain who reported reduction in pain and improvement in function also demonstrated an improvement in gait pattern.

Purpose: To assess the changes in gait pattern and clinical symptoms of patients with chronic non-specific low back pain (CNSLBP) following a home-based biomechanical treatment (HBBT).

Methods: This was a retrospective analysis of 60 CNSLBP patients. All patients underwent a gait evaluation and completed self-assessment questionnaires at pre-treatment and after 3 and 6 months of a HBBT (AposTherapy).

Complication rates are reduced for revision adult spine deformity surgery among high-volume hospitals and surgeons.

Background Context: Revision adult spinal deformity surgery (RASDS) is a particularly high-risk intervention.

Purpose: The aim was to assess complication rates in RASDS by surgeon and hospital operative volume.

Study Design/setting: This was a retrospective analysis of prospectively collected data.

Body image in patients with adolescent idiopathic scoliosis: validation of the Body Image Disturbance Questionnaire--Scoliosis Version.

Background: Appearance concerns in individuals with adolescent idiopathic scoliosis can result in impairment in daily functioning, or body image disturbance. The Body Image Disturbance Questionnaire (BIDQ) is a self-reported, seven-question instrument that measures body image disturbance in general populations; no studies have specifically examined body image disturbance in those with adolescent idiopathic scoliosis. This study aimed to validate a modified version of the BIDQ in a population with adolescent idiopathic scoliosis and to establish discriminant validity by comparing responses of operatively and nonoperatively treated patients with those of normal controls.