bracing is the non-operative treatment of choice for adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (ais) and careful application of pads on apical segment of curve is very important for correction. control of pads` appropriate site in brace is not easy by clinical evaluation. therefore, we decided to compare results of braces which for better control of pads by radiographs, metal marker inserted around pads ...

Introduction: This study aimed to investigate the brace compliance and clinical background of patients with adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS) who demonstrate different degrees psychological brace-related stress.

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Disturbed somatosensory evoked potentials have been demonstrated in patients with adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (but this functional delay was found to originate above the C5-6 level, while the lower cord level was unaffected). Together with MR imaging observation of tonsillar ectopia and a relatively tethered cord, we hypothesized that there is disturbed mean diffusivi...

Scoliosis seen in the chicken after pinealectomy resembles adolescent idiopathic scoliosis in man. It has been suggested that in both species, deficiency of the pineal hormone, melatonin, is responsible for this phenomenon. In nine patients with adolescent idiopathic scoliosis and in ten age- and gender-matched controls, the circadian levels of serum melatonin and the excretion of urinary 6-hyd...

Scoliosis, by its most basic definition, is a musculoskeletal deformity of the spine characterized by an observable lateral curvature [1]. The diagnosis known as Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis (AIS) was first defined by John James in 1954 as he attempted to divide childhood idiopathic scoliosis into three peak periods of incidence. Adolescent onset was described as the appearance of scoliosis ...

Introduction Many chromosomic locations have been linked with the AIS, however, no causative genes have been clearly identified. We recently identified two regions (3q12.1 and 5q13.3) containing possibly causative gene(S) of AIS (Edery et al. 2011). Our recent work identified diseasecausing variants in a gene (that we called PFK2) in French AIS families (Patten et al. submitted 2014). We sought...

BACKGROUND Adolescent idiopathic scoliosis is the most common spinal deformity occurring in adolescents and its established prevalence varies from 2 to 3%. Adolescent idiopathic scoliosis has been identified as a potential risk factor for the development of low back pain in adolescents. The purpose of this study was to systematically review studies of the prevalence of low back pain in adolesce...