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Improvement of quality of life by conservative management of thoracic scoliosis at 172°: a case report
Adult scoliosis is a sideways curvature of the spine causing bilateral lower back pain and paresthesia of the lower limbs. Conservative treatment for scoliosis is primarily performed for youth, but scoliosis can be deteriorating as the patient ages. Rare, severe scoliosis with a Cobb angle over 40 d...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8852635/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35186149 http://dx.doi.org/10.25122/jml-2021-0332 |
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description | Adult scoliosis is a sideways curvature of the spine causing bilateral lower back pain and paresthesia of the lower limbs. Conservative treatment for scoliosis is primarily performed for youth, but scoliosis can be deteriorating as the patient ages. Rare, severe scoliosis with a Cobb angle over 40 degrees with respiratory difficulties leaves open surgery as the only option. However, surgical treatments often suffer from various complications. This case report presents an elderly woman with severe scoliosis at a Cobb angle of 172°. The patient showed no respiratory difficulties. As the patient refused to receive surgical treatment, conservative care was performed. A series of treatments showed positive outcomes to improve the quality of the patient’s life. Extremely severe scoliosis with a 172° Cobb angle has never been reported in the geriatric population. Our case supports the efficiency of conservative management for such severe scoliosis. |
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spelling | pubmed-88526352022-03-01 Improvement of quality of life by conservative management of thoracic scoliosis at 172°: a case report Chu, Eric Chun-Pu J Med Life Case Report Adult scoliosis is a sideways curvature of the spine causing bilateral lower back pain and paresthesia of the lower limbs. Conservative treatment for scoliosis is primarily performed for youth, but scoliosis can be deteriorating as the patient ages. Rare, severe scoliosis with a Cobb angle over 40 degrees with respiratory difficulties leaves open surgery as the only option. However, surgical treatments often suffer from various complications. This case report presents an elderly woman with severe scoliosis at a Cobb angle of 172°. The patient showed no respiratory difficulties. As the patient refused to receive surgical treatment, conservative care was performed. A series of treatments showed positive outcomes to improve the quality of the patient’s life. Extremely severe scoliosis with a 172° Cobb angle has never been reported in the geriatric population. Our case supports the efficiency of conservative management for such severe scoliosis. Carol Davila University Press 2022-01 /pmc/articles/PMC8852635/ /pubmed/35186149 http://dx.doi.org/10.25122/jml-2021-0332 Text en ©2022 JOURNAL of MEDICINE and LIFE https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/) ), which permits unrestricted use and redistribution provided that the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Case Report Chu, Eric Chun-Pu Improvement of quality of life by conservative management of thoracic scoliosis at 172°: a case report |
title | Improvement of quality of life by conservative management of thoracic scoliosis at 172°: a case report |
title_full | Improvement of quality of life by conservative management of thoracic scoliosis at 172°: a case report |
title_fullStr | Improvement of quality of life by conservative management of thoracic scoliosis at 172°: a case report |
title_full_unstemmed | Improvement of quality of life by conservative management of thoracic scoliosis at 172°: a case report |
title_short | Improvement of quality of life by conservative management of thoracic scoliosis at 172°: a case report |
title_sort | improvement of quality of life by conservative management of thoracic scoliosis at 172°: a case report |
topic | Case Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8852635/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35186149 http://dx.doi.org/10.25122/jml-2021-0332 |
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