Objectives: The results of a few studies about the effects of ankle brace on muscles function during the performance of different tasks are contradictory. Moreover, the effect of brace on the co-contraction of ankle muscles is undiscovered. Therefore, the present study investigated the effect of brace usage on the ankle muscles activity and co-contraction during single-leg landing. Methods: Fi...

BACKGROUND Patellar stabilizing braces are used to alleviate pain and prevent subluxation/dislocation by having biomechanical effects in terms of improved patellar tracking. The purpose of this study is to analyze the effects of the dynamic patellar realignment brace, Patella Pro (Otto Bock GmbH, Duderstadt, Germany), on disease determinants in subjects with patellofemoral instability using upr...

PURPOSE Bracing is a common treatment for patients with adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS) and is recommended for most skeletally immature patients with a curve of 25-45° in order to prevent or delay curve progression. The aim of this study was to determine at which body habitus orthotic management for AIS becomes less effective. We hypothesize that overweight children are more likely to fai...

INTRODUCTION Various measures of skeletal maturity are used to initiate weaning from a brace in patients suffering from idiopathic scoliosis, resulting in different outcomes. We present two cases with double major curves, treated with the Rigo System Cheneau brace, and weaned using different criteria. CASE PRESENTATION Case 1 was a South African, Caucasian girl who was initially treated with ...

Discretization of continuously valued data is a useful and necessary tool because many learning paradigms assume nominal data. A list of objectives for efficient and effective discretization is presented. A paradigm called BRACE (Boundary Ranking And Classification Evaluation) that attempts to meet the objectives is presented along with an algorithm that follows the paradigm. The paradigm meets...

Material and methods In 1965, Cotrel and Morel describing the EDF plaster jacket technique stated that “in young children, it should be feasible not only to prevent further progression but above all to use the child’s growth to regress structural vertebral and thoracic deformities”. Before the child start walking, we use a plaster shell in bending correction. After walking, an underarm plaster ...

Background HA-TLS is very difficult to correct using other braces except for the Milwaukee brace (MB). Since the introduction of the MB, a major problem has been poor patient compliance due to the perception of the brace as cosmetically unacceptable. The forces applied to the spine by the MB are well illustrated by White-Panjabi (1). According to circadian biological rhythm, a sleeping person R...

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...

Methods According to the Scoliosis Research Society (SRS) AIS brace studies standardization criteria, the following conditions were used to determine which patients to include in this study: aged 10 years or older, Risser 0-II, primary curve magnitude 25°-40° and no prior treatment when the brace was subscribed. At skeletal maturity, the percentage of patients whose curve progressed more than 6...

We used five randomly selected cadaver specimens to evaluate the Anderson Knee Stabler and the Lenox Hill Knee Brace, individually and in combination with an anterior cruciate ligament protective tape method. Reduction of total laxity, as well as a defined pathologic anterior-posterior translation and internal-external rotation, was tested after the anterior cruciate and medial collateral ligam...