ArticleBMC musculoskeletal disorders2019
3D spinal and rib cage predictors of brace effectiveness in adolescent idiopathic scoliosis.
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- Predictive Parameters for Chêneau Brace Efficacy in Patients with Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis.Global spine journal · 2024Article
- Predictors of Clinically Meaningful Results of Bracing in a Large Cohort of Adolescents with Idiopathic Scoliosis Reaching the End of Conservative Treatment.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Finite element analysis in brace treatment on adolescent idiopathic scoliosis.Medical & biological engineering & computing · 2022Review
- Quantitative imaging of the spine in adolescent idiopathic scoliosis: shifting the paradigm from diagnostic to comprehensive prognostic evaluation.European journal of orthopaedic surgery & traumatology : orthopedie traumatologie · 2021Review
- Lack of in-brace x-rays in compliant AIS patients wearing full-time TLSO braces associates with failure.Journal of orthopaedic surgery and research · 2021Article
- Discovering the association between the pre- and post-operative 3D spinal curve patterns in adolescent idiopathic scoliosis.Spine deformity · 2021Article
- Influence of Chêneau-Brace Therapy on Lumbar and Thoracic Spine and Its Interdependency with Cervical Spine Alignment in Patients with Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis (AIS).Journal of clinical medicine · 2021Article
- A Novel Instant 3-Dimensional Printing System for Postoperative Fracture Patients: A Comparative Cohort Study.Medical science monitor : international medical journal of experimental and clinical research · 2021Article
- Three-dimensional classification of the Lenke 1 adolescent idiopathic scoliosis using coronal and lateral spinal radiographs.BMC musculoskeletal disorders · 2020Article
- 3D Deformation Patterns of S Shaped Elastic Rods as a Pathogenesis Model for Spinal Deformity in Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis.Scientific reports · 2019Article
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Abstract
backgroundScoliotic braces are the standard of curve for management of moderate spinal deformities in pediatric patients. The effectiveness of this treatment method has been shown; however, the spinal and rib cage parameters, in the three anatomical planes, that are associated with bracing outcome in adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS) are not fully identified.
methodsA total number of 45 right thoracic AIS patients who had received a thoraco-lumbo-scaral brace for the first time were included retrospectively. For each patient, radiographic images at three visits, pre-brace, in-brace, and at least 1 year after the first brace fit were included. Age, sex, Risser sign, and curve type at pre-brace, and thoracic and lumbar frontal and sagittal Cobb angles, thoracic and lumbar apical rotations, sagittal and frontal balances at pre-brace and in-brace were determined. Two sagittal curve types (hypothoracolumbar and normal/hyperthoracolumbar kyphosis), two rib cage types based on the costovertebral joints (drooping and horizontal), and two axial shapes of the spine (S shaped and V shaped) were used to stratify the patients. Feature selection and linear regression with regularization determined the parameters and the interaction terms that predicted the brace effectiveness significantly.
resultsSmaller in-brace thoracic Cobb and larger in-brace lordosis predicted brace effectiveness, p < 0.05. Impact of the out of brace lordosis on the brace success increased as the in brace kyphosis angle decreased, p = 0.046. A larger out of brace lordosis in hypothoracolumbar sagittal profile type patients improved the outcomes, p = 0.031. A smaller out of brace thoracic rotation improved the bracing outcomes in patients with horizontal ribs, p = 0.040.
conclusionBoth 3D patient specific parameters (lordosis, thoracic rotation, shape of the rib cage, and sagittal profile) and brace design (which allows larger in brace lordosis, better in brace Cobb correction) are important predictors of the brace effectiveness in AIS.
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