This article is part of the supplement: 5th International Conference on Conservative Management of Spinal Deformities .

Oral presentation

The development of a spinal algorhythmic for evaluation of scoliosis

Biagio Iemolo

I.S.C. (Italian Spine Center), Via dei Mille n. 238 Vittoria 97019 (Rg), Italy

corresponding author email

from 5^th International Conference on Conservative Management of Spinal Deformities
Athens, Greece. 3–5 April 2008

Scoliosis 2009, 4(Suppl 1):O71doi:10.1186/1748-7161-4-S1-O71

The electronic version of this abstract is the complete one and can be found online at: http://www.scoliosisjournal.com/content/4/S1/O71

Published:

15 January 2009

© 2009 Iemolo; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.

Objective

The conservative management of scoliosis and related spinal deformities must be precise. A prompt evaluation of various somatic-radiological parameters and an accurate record of the spinal data are required during treatment.

Our purpose is to present a spinal algorhythmic to facilitate documentation of treatments for various spinal diseases during growth.

Study design

Seven types of parameters are considered:

1) growth (height, seated height, weight, lower extremity length inequality etc.)

2) clinical frontal plane (rib hump height, Bunnel, pelvic balance etc.)

3) radiological frontal plane (Cobb-Perdriolle degrees, Risser, etc.)

4) clinical sagittal plane (sagittal distances from the plumb line, pelvic balance, etc.)

5) radiological sagittal plane (angle of kyphosis, lordosis, sacrum, etc.)

6) muscular-neuromotor integration (pectoral, psoas muscles retraction etc.)

7) unstable equilibrium (Romberg, knee-vestibular test, Fukuda-Unterberger, etc.)

Results

This spinal algorhythmic allowed us to obtained early and accurate identification of progressive deformities. In addition, we were able to facilitate the treatment of spinal diseases for all of the patients.

Conclusion

During growth, we believe that the various types of spinal deformities require prompt, careful and appropriate treatment recommendations.

This spinal algorhythmic is proposed to aid in the immediate evaluation of a deformity. The goals are to define the categories of scoliosis, kyphosis, spondilolysthesis and to quantize the magnitude of the spinal deformities.

This criteria easily recognizes all of the patient categories, identifies progressive deformities, and describes indications for their treatment.

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