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Conservative Management of Spinal Deformity in Childhood

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Abstract

Casting and bracing for spinal deformities are very traditional ways of stabilizing or correcting spinal deformities during growth. There is still open debate about their influence in positive outcome.

Indications for bracing for scoliosis and kyphosis in the growing period depend on accurate history and clinical examination, as well as imaging and documentation of progression. Bracing systems must be effective and tolerable for the patients. The team conducting the treatment must be convinced of its effectiveness and transmit this conviction to the patient and his family. These are the basic conditions for a successful treatment. In the following paper, scoliosis treatment and kyphosis treatment are discussed.

Federico Canavese is the author of the section “Conservative Treatment of Idiopathic Scoliosis” and Dimitri Ceroni is the author of the section “Conservative Management of Kyphosis”

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  1. Department of Pediatric Surgery, University Hospital Estaing, 1, place Lucie et Raymond Aubrac, 63003, Clermont Ferrand, France

    Federico Canavese

  2. Department of Paediatric Orthopaedics, Children’s Hospital and University Hospital Geneva, rue Willy Donzé 6, 1211, Geneva, Switzerland

    Dimitri Ceroni

  3. Clinique des Grangettes, ch. des Grangettes, 7, 1224, Chêne-Bougeries, Switzerland

    André Kaelin

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Canavese, F., Ceroni, D., Kaelin, A. (2014). Conservative Management of Spinal Deformity in Childhood. In: Bentley, G. (eds) European Surgical Orthopaedics and Traumatology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-34746-7_27

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