Effects of Lateral Trunk Support on Spinal Alignment in Spinal Cord Injured Persons

The effects of lateral trunk supports (LTS) in special seating on the spinal alignment of 17 spinal cord injured (SCI) subjects with scoliosis were studied using bi-planar radiographs. The LTS improved significantly the functional scoliotic spinal alignment in the frontal and sagittal planes regardless of the severity of scoliosis.

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Conditions

Scoliosis Bone Diseases Central Nervous System Diseases Musculoskeletal Diseases Nervous System Diseases Spinal Cord Diseases Spinal Cord Injuries Spinal Cord Injury Spinal Curvatures Spinal Diseases Trauma, Nervous System Wounds and Injuries

Age range

18 year–60 year

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Phase 1

Primary location

School of Occupational Therapy, National Taiwan University

Taipei, 100, Taiwan

About this study

SCI patients often develop progressive scoliosis due to loss of muscular support to maintain good sitting posture. Special seating with LTS has been widely used in clinical practice to improve their sitting postures. However, little is known as to how this can affect the scoliotic curve.The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of lateral trunk supports (LTS) in special seating on the spinal alignment of spinal cord injured (SCI) individuals with scoliosis.

Ten male and seven female SCI subjects with scoliosis sat on an experimental chair with and without LTS while radiographs of the spine in the anteroposterior and lateral directions were taken. Radiographs of the spine in the A-P and lateral directions were taken with a digital radiographic imaging system (Saturn 9000 M, Comed., Korea). For each direction, the complete image of the spine was obtained from separate x-ray images of the upper and lower trunk due to the limited field of view of the x-ray machine. The Cobb angles and scoliotic indices based on the anteroposterior radiographic images and the angles of the thoracic and lumber spine based on lateral were calculated.

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: No

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

(1) C4-T12 SCI, (2) onset over 1 year, (3) sitting on the wheelchair more than 4 hours per day, (4) diagnosed thoracic or lumbar scoliosis through A-P radiographs, (5) flexible scoliosis, confirmed by supine and side-lying bending radiographs.

Exclusion criteria

inflexible scoliosis

Treatment and study plan

Lateral trunk support of wheelchair seating

Device

Primary outcomes

Spinal aligamnet(Cobb angle)

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

National Taiwan University Hospital

Other

Collaborators

National Science and Technology Council, Taiwan

Registry information

Important dates

Study start: 2002
Study completion: 2004
First posted: Sep 12, 2005
Registry last updated: Sep 12, 2005

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