Use of the halo-gravitation-extension in preoperative preparation in severe scoliosis

Severe and fixed scoliosis needs a preoperative extension treatment to attain a good result of correction by spondylodesis. Halo-up-extension is a very simple, comfortable and successful method to prepare patients with a severe scoliosis for operation. From January 1981 to July 1989 we carried out t...

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Published inBeitrage zur Orthopadie und Traumatologie Vol. 37; no. 7; p. 382
Main Authors Pfeiffer, U, Hähnel, H
Format Journal Article
LanguageGerman
Published Germany 01.07.1990
Subjects
Adolescent
Braces
Child
Combined Modality Therapy
Female
Humans
Male
Preoperative Care
Scoliosis - surgery
Scoliosis - therapy
Spinal Fusion
Traction - instrumentation
Traction - methods
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Summary:Severe and fixed scoliosis needs a preoperative extension treatment to attain a good result of correction by spondylodesis. Halo-up-extension is a very simple, comfortable and successful method to prepare patients with a severe scoliosis for operation. From January 1981 to July 1989 we carried out the preoperative halo-up-Extension treatment at 45 patients. 39 of them had a severe scoliosis with a cobb-angle of more than 70 degrees. The correction by halo-up-Extension runs on an average of 35% of the total correction.
ISSN:0005-8149