Impact of spinal fusion on severity health status in scoliotic adolescents with polyhandicap.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Scoliosis constitutes a prevalent comorbidity in adolescents with polyhandicap and frequently leads to other severe impairments, impacting abilities and requiring complex caregiving strategies. Therefore, spinal fusion surgeries are commonly performed to alleviate pain and provide more comfort. However, spine stabilization has not previously been proven to improve the severity health status of adolescents with polyhandicap according to specific clinical scales.

Objective

This study describes and compares the severity health status of adolescents with polyhandicap before and after they underwent spinal fusion.

Methods

A monocentric retrospective observational study was conducted in the university hospital centre of Saint-Etienne, France. We included between

SUBMITTER: Bessaguet H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10919586 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature