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ArticleJournal of medicine and life2022

Improvement of quality of life by conservative management of thoracic scoliosis at 172°: a case report.

Eric Chun-Pu Chu

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Article in Journal of medicine and life, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.

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12citing papers in PubMed
3.1field-weighted citation impact, top 9% of its field
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12 citing papers in PubMed, 14 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Eric Chun-Pu ChuNew York Chiropractic and Physiotherapy Centre, Hong Kong, China.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0893-556X
New York Chiropractic College · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Adult scoliosis is a sideways curvature of the spine causing bilateral lower back pain and paresthesia of the lower limbs. Conservative treatment for scoliosis is primarily performed for youth, but scoliosis can be deteriorating as the patient ages. Rare, severe scoliosis with a Cobb angle over 40 degrees with respiratory difficulties leaves open surgery as the only option. However, surgical treatments often suffer from various complications. This case report presents an elderly woman with severe scoliosis at a Cobb angle of 172°. The patient showed no respiratory difficulties. As the patient refused to receive surgical treatment, conservative care was performed. A series of treatments showed positive outcomes to improve the quality of the patient's life. Extremely severe scoliosis with a 172° Cobb angle has never been reported in the geriatric population. Our case supports the efficiency of conservative management for such severe scoliosis.

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Conservative TreatmentScoliosisAdolescentAdultAgedFemaleHumansQuality of LifeSpineTreatment OutcomechiropracticDEXA – dual-energy x-ray absorptiometryMRI – magnetic resonance imagingNPS – numeric pain scaleNSAIDs – non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugspRB – retinoblastoma proteinQoL – quality of lifeRB – retinoblastoma generetinoblastomaspinal manipulationthoracic scoliosisWHOQOL – World Health Organization Quality of Life

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PMID35186149
PMCPMC8852635
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