Methods We retrospectively observed 13 patients with the diagnosis of LS. 7 of them needed bracing because of lumbar kyphosis, while the others were treated only with physical exercises to control pain and prevent deformity. All patients treated with bracing (3 males and 4 females, average age 13.5 years) presented at first observation with back pain, lumbar kyphosis, and a radiographic image o...

Scheuermann’s disease (juvenile kyphosis dorsalis) is a structural kyphosis of the thoracic spine initially described by Scheuermann in 1921. It occurs commonly in adolescents (0.4-8.3% of the general population). It is characterized by irregularities of the vertebral end plates, the presence of Schmorl’s nodes, disk-space narrowing, and vertebral wedging. Scheuermann’s disease is rarely associ...

AIM The term kyphosis is used to describe the spinal curve that results in an abnormally rounded back. Kyphosis may develop due to trauma, developmental anomalies, degenerative disc disease, inflammatory diseases, and infectious diseases and also iatrogenic. The aim of this paper is to review the etiopathognesis and the treatment management of kyphosis. METHODS A search in the National Librar...

Scheuermann kyphosis is a structural deformity of the thoracic or thoracolumbar spine that develops prior to puberty and deteriorates during adolescence. There is limited information on its natural history but many patients are expected to have a benign course. Severe kyphosis can progress into adult life and cause significant deformity and debilitating back pain. Conservative treatment include...

Materials and methods From 2001 to 2007, eighty-six adolescents were conservatively treated for Scheuermann juvenile kyphosis of thoracic location. Charts of 55 patients, 39 boys and 16 girls, were accessible. The age was from 11 to 18 years, with a mean of 14.6 ± 1.6 years. The location of hyper-kyphosis was middle thoracic in most cases, apart from five patients with a thoraco-lumbar location...

Methods and materials Since 1999, 110 patients were admitted for conservative treatment of Scheuermann juvenile kyphosis. The number of out-patient treatments were not accessible. Four patients (4% of hospitalized patients) underwent surgical treatment. The age of surgery was 16, 16, 17, and 18 years respectively. The sagittal thoracic T4-T12 Cobb angle was 80°, 85°, 80°, and 100° respectively....

OBJECTIVE To analyze the efficacy of the method for selecting the distal level of fusion in treatment of thoracic hyperkyphosis in patients with Scheuermann's disease. BACKGROUND The fusion area needs to include all the kyphotic deformity in Scheuermann patients; however, precise levels of the distal fixation have not been determined yet. STUDY DESIGN Retrospective cohort review. MATERIAL...