Kuru, T

Yilmaz, H

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T Kuru

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Conservative treatment results of 39 patients
with adolescent idiopathic scoliosis
H Yilmaz1*, T Kuru2
From 8th International Conference on Conservative Management of Spinal Deformities and SOSORT 2011
Annual Meeting
Barcelona, Spain. 19-21 May 2011
Background
Scoliosis conservative treatment’s goal is to maintain
function, and prevent symptoms in the short and long-
term and protect the health related quality of life. The
purpose of this study was to analyze our conservative
treatment results.
Materials and methods
39 patients with AIS who did received a conservative
treatment method included in the study allocated into
three groups. 35 of our patients were female and 4 were
male. 4 patients with 20°≥ Cobb angle enrolled into first
group (exercise group). 24 patients did not want to
receive an exercise programme so they included in 2.
group (brace group). All of the patients worn CAD/
CAM system-Chêneau-brace.11 patients in the 3. group
worn brace and participated outpatient exercise pro-
gramme. The mean 3 months changes -Treatment results-
of three groups were analysed with SPSS.
Results
There were significant within-group pre-post treatment
improvements of Cobb angle for brace and brace+exer-
cise group. Analyses showed no significant differences in
other parameters (see Table 1).
Conclusion
In the conservative treatment of AIS, making the right
decision about patient, brace and exercise is very
important.
Our study have some limitations, our follow up time
was short and we did not have enough patients in each
group so we could not compare groups results.
1Canakkale Onsekiz Mart University PMR Department, Canakkale, Turkey
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Table 1 Treatment results after 3 months
Treatment groups Variables Before treatment Mean ± SD After treatment Mean ± SD P value
Exercise and brace group (n:11) Max Cobb° 34.38±9.24 29.37±10.86 0.024
Vertebral rotation° 10.63±5.67 9.57±5.62 0.162
Rib Hump° 15.55±9.70 11.66±8.01 0.120
Brace group (n:24) Max Cobb° 34.00±8.56 28.60±10.24 0.000
Vertebral rotation° 8.82±4.59 7.21±4.46 0.072
Rib Hump° 24.18±14.62 19.25±12.76 0.328
Exercise group (n:4) Max Cobb° 20.56±3.00 19.28±1.00 0.664
Vertebral rotation° 5.50±1.29 4.52±2.12 0.205
Rib Hump° 4.00±6.92 4.26±3.54 0.653
Yilmaz and Kuru Scoliosis 2012, 7(Suppl 1):O47
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Author details
1Canakkale Onsekiz Mart University PMR Department, Canakkale, Turkey.
2Istanbul University, School of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation, Istanbul,
Turkey.
Published: 27 January 2012
doi:10.1186/1748-7161-7-S1-O47
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39 patients with adolescent idiopathic scoliosis. Scoliosis 2012 7(Suppl 1):
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