Prospective 100 first results of immediate scoliosis correction with the new lyon brace: ARTbrace

Scoliosis, Dec 2014

Jean de Mauroy, Sophie Pourret

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Prospective 100 first results of immediate scoliosis correction with the new lyon brace: ARTbrace

Mauroy and Pourret Scoliosis Prospective 100 first results of immediate scoliosis correction with the new lyon brace: ARTbrace Jean Claude de Mauroy 1 Sophie Pourret 0 0 Lecante , Lyon , France 1 Clinique du Parc , Lyon , France - From 11th International Conference on Conservative Management of Spinal Deformities - SOSORT 2014 Annual Meeting Wiesbaden, Germany. 8-10 May 2014 Background The immediate reducibility of the Cobb angle in brace is the fundamental parameter of success of non-surgical orthopedic treatment of scoliosis. Design The new Lyon brace is constructed with two asymmetrical lateral polycarbonate pieces connected posteriorly at the midline by a vertical incurved bar. The brace reproduce a twisted column in the opposite direction of scoliosis. The shape is obtained by superposition of three segmental electronic moldings which will be superimposed by a new software: OrtenShape. Results The results of a prospective series of the first 100 consecutive patients were studied using EOS X-ray and compared with results obtained by other braces. Radiologically, in the frontal plane, the immediate in brace reduction is on average (0.72) (0.63 +- 0.19 for thoracic curves & 0.76 +- 0.26 for lumbar curves. These results can be classified: - Depending on the type of curvature: thoracolumbar (0.98), lumbar (0.71), double major (0.67) lumbar (0.67), thoracic (0.64) 1Clinique du Parc, Lyon, France Full list of author information is available at the end of the article Conclusion The new Lyon brace (ARTbrace) allows a better immediate in-brace reduction than the old Lyon brace. without need for a preliminary plaster cast. (...truncated)


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Jean de Mauroy, Sophie Pourret. Prospective 100 first results of immediate scoliosis correction with the new lyon brace: ARTbrace, Scoliosis, 2014, pp. O35, 9,