ArticleEuropean spine journal : official publication of the European Spine Society, the European Spinal Deformity Society, and the European Section of the Cervical Spine Research Society2023
Defining "successful" treatment outcomes in adolescent idiopathic scoliosis: a scoping review.
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- Identification of important outcomes for surgical and brace treatment of adolescent idiopathic scoliosis : qualitative analysis of the perspectives of young people, parents, and healthcare professionals.Bone & joint open · 2026Article
- Is submuscular drainage mandatory for posterior spinal fusion in adolescent idiopathic scoliosis? A retrospective clinical study.Frontiers in surgery · 2026Article
- Mental Health and Mental Illness in Pediatric Orthopaedic Surgery: A Systematic Review.Journal of the Pediatric Orthopaedic Society of North America · 2025Review
- Efficacy Comparison of Multiplanar Deformity Reducer System and Direct Vertebral Rotation in Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis Corrective Surgery.Journal of Korean Neurosurgical Society · 2025Article
- A Non-Surgical Multimodal Approach to Severe Thoracic Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis Combining ScoliBrace and Scoliosis-Specific Rehabilitation Therapies: A Case Series.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Letter to the Editor: Optimizing deformity correction: a retrospective comparative analysis of two techniques in high-magnitude curves in adolescent idiopathic scoliosis.Asian spine journal · 2025Article
- Understanding bracing outcomes in adolescents with idiopathic scoliosis: a mixed-methods approach.Frontiers in rehabilitation sciences · 2025Article
- Using artificial intelligence to develop a measure of orthopaedic treatment success from clinical notes.Frontiers in digital health · 2025Article
- Quality of life in adolescents with idiopathic scoliosis: A cross-sectional comparison.The South African journal of physiotherapy · 2025Article
- Design and development of an intelligent wearing system for adolescent spinal orthotics.Medical & biological engineering & computing · 2024Article
- Adolescent idiopathic scoliosis is associated with muscle area asymmetries in the lumbar spine.European spine journal : official publication of the European Spine Society, the European Spinal Deformity Society, and the European Section of the Cervical Spine Research Society · 2023Article
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Abstract
purposeAdolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS) is the most common type of scoliosis that affects children aged 10-18 years old, manifesting in a three-dimensional spinal deformity. This study aimed to explore outcome measures used in defining AIS treatment success. Particularly, analyzing the extent of qualitative and quantitative (radiographic and quality of life domains) measures to evaluate AIS and whether AIS treatment approaches (surgical, bracing and physiotherapy) influences outcomes used as proxies of treatment success.
methodsEMBASE and MEDLINE databases were used to conduct a systematic scoping review with 654 search queries. 158 papers met the inclusion criteria and were screened for data extraction. Extractable variables included: study characteristics, study participant characteristics, type of study, type of intervention approach and outcome measures.
resultsAll 158 studies measured quantitative outcomes. 61.38% of papers used radiographic outcomes whilst 38.62% of papers used quantitative quality of life outcomes to evaluate treatment success. Irrespective of treatment intervention utilized, the type of quantitative outcome measure recorded were similar in proportion. Moreover, of the radiographic outcome measures, the subcategory Cobb angle was predominantly used across all intervention approaches. For quantitative quality of life measures, questionnaires investigating multiple domains such as SRS were primarily used as proxies of AIS treatment success across all intervention approaches.
conclusionThis study identified that no articles employed qualitative measures of describing the psychosocial implications of AIS in defining treatment success. Although quantitative measures have merit in clinical diagnoses and management, there is increasing value in using qualitative methods such as thematic analysis in guiding clinicians to develop a biopsychosocial approach for patient care.
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