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Predictive factors of Osaka Medical College (OMC) brace treatment in patients with adolescent idiopathic scoliosis

Overview of attention for article published in Scoliosis and Spinal Disorders, April 2015
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Title
Predictive factors of Osaka Medical College (OMC) brace treatment in patients with adolescent idiopathic scoliosis
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Scoliosis and Spinal Disorders, April 2015
DOI 10.1186/s13013-015-0038-7
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Hiroshi Kuroki, Naoki Inomata, Hideaki Hamanaka, Kiyoshi Higa, Etsuo Chosa, Naoya Tajima

Abstract

Factors influencing clinical course of brace treatment apply to adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS) patients remain unclear. By making clear them, we may select suitable patients for brace treatment and alleviate overtreatment. The purpose of this study was to explore predictive factors of Osaka Medical College (OMC) brace treatment for AIS patients in accordance with the modified standardized criteria proposed by the Scoliosis Research Society (SRS) committee on bracing and non-operative management. From 1999 through 2010, 31 consecutive patients with AIS who were newly prescribed the OMC brace and met the modified SRS criteria were studied. The study included 2 boys and 29 girls with a mean age of 12 years and 0 month. We investigated the clinical course and evaluated the impacts of compliance, initial brace correction rate, curve flexibility, curve pattern, Cobb angle, chronological age, and Risser stage to clinical outcomes. The clinical course of the brace treatment was considered progression if ≥6° curvature increase occurred and improvement if ≥6° curvature decrease occurred according to SRS judgment criteria. The curve progressed in 10 cases, the curve improved in 6 cases, and the curve remained unchanged in 15 cases (success rate: 67.7%). The success rate was statistically higher in the patient group whose instruction adherence rate was greater than 50% as compared with in those 50% or less. Initial brace correction rate, curve flexibility, curve pattern, the magnitude of Cobb angle, chronological age, and Risser stage did not have any significant effect for clinical courses. However, success rate was insignificantly higher in the cases whose Cobb angle in brace was smaller than that in hanging position. OMC brace treatment could alter the natural history of AIS, however, that was significantly affected by compliance of brace wear.

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Unknown 38 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 7 18%
Student > Master 4 11%
Other 4 11%
Student > Postgraduate 4 11%
Researcher 4 11%
Other 8 21%
Unknown 7 18%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 20 53%
Nursing and Health Professions 6 16%
Engineering 2 5%
Social Sciences 2 5%
Sports and Recreations 1 3%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 7 18%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 2. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 26 June 2015.
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#16,720,137
of 25,371,288 outputs
Outputs from Scoliosis and Spinal Disorders
#182
of 320 outputs
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#160,580
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Outputs of similar age from Scoliosis and Spinal Disorders
#6
of 8 outputs
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