PMID: 696275Aug 1, 1978Paper

Postural equilibrium in adolescent idiopathic scoliosis

Acta Orthopaedica Scandinavica
T SahlstrandA Nachemson

Abstract

Postural equilibrium has been quantified by stabilometry in 57 patients with adolescent idiopathic scoliosis aged 10-16 years. Treatment was required in 39 cases whereof 18 were placed under observation only. The control group comprised 32 healthy children of the same age. An experimental design was made to vary the degree of difficulty of upright standing in four different test situations. The postural sway was analysed in the sagittal and lateral direction as well as in the area of total sway. The scoliotic patients had a significantly poorer postural control compared with the healthy children in all the tests. The difference was most pronounced in tests in which the proprioceptive functions were most important for maintaining the postural equilibrium. The left convex patients had quantitatively more pronounced reactions than the right convex patients. Patients with small curvatures, i.e., patients placed under observation only, had significantly increased postural sway compared with patients with more severe deformity. This fact, together with findings in patients with double primary curvatures, and the results of the study of brace effects, indirectly indicate the possibility of a postural disequilibrium as a contributory c...Continue Reading

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