Low Back Pain

Stress Fracture

Soft thoracolumbar brace worn 23 hours a day.

Soft spinal brace

Hard thoracolumbar orthosis done individually molded, Worn 23 hours a day.

thoracolumbar orthosis

Patients are only allowed to do isometrical excersices adviced by a physiotherapist.

Excersice restriction

Satakunta central hospital

Turku university hospital

Treatment of Spondylolysisin Pediatric Patients.

Treatment of Spondylolysis With Soft Spinal Brace vs. Boston Brace in Pediatric Patients. A Clinical Trial

Bony healing on 4 month CT-scan measured in three categories: healed, healing in process, not healed.

Lumbar spondylolisthesis at 2-year follow-up

Oswestry disability index(patients over 16 years old) 0, 4, 12, 24 months. The self-completed questionnaire contains 10 questions with 6 different answer options. Each question is scored on a scale 0-5 with the first statement being zero and indicating the least amount of disability and the last statement is scored 5 indicating most severe disability. The scores for all questions are summed, then multiplied by two to obtain the index (range 0 to 100). Zero is equated with no disability and 100 is the maximum disability possible.

Pain drawing (patients under 16 years old) 0, 4, 12, 24 months. Measures the location and surface area of the pain.

Vas (visual analogue scale) 0, 4, 12, 24 months. Measures the pain in millimeters. 0 millimeters being no pain and 10 millimeters being the worst pain a patient can imagine.

SRS-24 scores (scoliosis research society's scoliosis patient questionnaire) at 0, 4, 12, and 24 months. The questionnaire was first developed to measure the life quality of scoliosis patients. The SRS-24 is a disease-specific HRQoL questionnaire used to assess the current state of the patient with scoliosis, and the effects of surgery, consisting of twenty-four questions, each with a grading of one to five points, with a maximum score of 120. The questionnaire evaluates seven domains: pain, general self-image, function from back condition, activity level, postoperative self-image, postoperative function and satisfaction.

Spinal mobility and strength tests will be done at 4months and 24 months follow-up visits. Sit-up test measures ab strength.The patient does as many sit-ups as he/she can. Maximum repetition will be 50 sit-ups.

Spinal mobility and strength tests will be done at 4months and 24 months follow-up visits. In back muscle test patient will do back muscles and the measurement will be how many times one can do the movement. Maximum repetition will be 50.

Spinal mobility and strength tests will be done at 4months and 24 months follow-up visits. In squad test it will be measured how many squads a patient can do. Maximum repetition will be 50 squads.

Spinal mobility and strength tests will be done at 4months and 24 months follow-up visits. Patient will be in prone position and hold upper part of body up for as long as possible. It will be measured in seconds and the maximum hold up time is 240 seconds.

Spinal mobility and strength tests will be done at 4months and 24 months follow-up visits. Lumbar spine flexion will be measured as patient bends forward in millimeters.

Spinal mobility and strength tests will be done at 4months and 24 months follow-up visits. Lumbar spine flexion will be measured as patient bends backward in millimeters.

Spinal mobility and strength tests will be done at 4months and 24 months follow-up visits. Lumbar spine rotation will be measured with Myrins incliometer and the measurement will be grades and scaled between 0-360 degrees. The more rotation, the bigger the degree.

Spinal mobility and strength tests will be done at 4months and 24 months follow-up visits. Lumbar spine sidebending will be measured both sides in millimeters and the result is mediane of these.

Turku University Hospital

Satakunta Central Hospital

patients are in two groups treated with soft spinal brace or with thoracolumbar orthosis.

spondylolysis/ödəm

Treatment of Spondylolysisin Pediatric Patients.

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