TY - GEN
T1 - A Case Study of Initial In-Brace Spinal Correction of Anisotropic Textile Brace and Boston Brace
AU - Wong, Charlotte Sze ham
AU - Yip, Joanne
AU - Yick, Kit lun
AU - Ng, Zerance Sun pui
N1 - Funding Information:
Acknowledgments. This work is supported by funding from the RGC General Funds [PolyU 152101/16E] entitled “Anisotropic Textile Braces for Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis” and a research student grant to Miss WONG Sze Ham from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
PY - 2021/7/25
Y1 - 2021/7/25
N2 - Adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS) is a common spinal condition found in teenagers during their puberty years. To minimize the rate of spinal progression and the risk for the need of surgical intervention, AIS patients are often prescribed treatment based on the extent of their spinal curvature. Among treatment options, rigid braces are a universal and effective treatment device recommended for moderate AIS patients with a Cobb’s angle that is greater than 20° with Risser signs 0–2. Other options like non-rigid braces are less frequently used due to their ambiguous efficacy. To compare the effectiveness of non-rigid braces and proven rigid orthoses, in-brace spinal correction of anisotropic textile brace and Boston brace will be compared here. This case study shows that anisotropic textile brace provides a comparable initial in-brace correction as that of the Boston brace, a better corrective effect for coronal and sagittal imbalances, and even a higher acceptance of patient.
AB - Adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS) is a common spinal condition found in teenagers during their puberty years. To minimize the rate of spinal progression and the risk for the need of surgical intervention, AIS patients are often prescribed treatment based on the extent of their spinal curvature. Among treatment options, rigid braces are a universal and effective treatment device recommended for moderate AIS patients with a Cobb’s angle that is greater than 20° with Risser signs 0–2. Other options like non-rigid braces are less frequently used due to their ambiguous efficacy. To compare the effectiveness of non-rigid braces and proven rigid orthoses, in-brace spinal correction of anisotropic textile brace and Boston brace will be compared here. This case study shows that anisotropic textile brace provides a comparable initial in-brace correction as that of the Boston brace, a better corrective effect for coronal and sagittal imbalances, and even a higher acceptance of patient.
KW - Adolescent idiopathic scoliosis
KW - Boston brace
KW - Bracing
KW - Initial spinal correction
KW - Non-rigid brace
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-80744-3_14
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-80744-3_14
M3 - Conference article published in proceeding or book
AN - SCOPUS:85112160836
SN - 9783030807436
T3 - Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems
SP - 109
EP - 115
BT - Advances in Human Factors and Ergonomics in Healthcare and Medical Devices - Proceedings of the AHFE 2021 Virtual Conference on Human Factors and Ergonomics in Healthcare and Medical Devices, 2021
A2 - Kalra, Jay
A2 - Lightner, Nancy J.
A2 - Taiar, Redha
PB - Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
T2 - AHFE Conference on Human Factors and Ergonomics in Healthcare and Medical Devices, 2021
Y2 - 25 July 2021 through 29 July 2021
ER -