A NEW SPINAL BRACE FOR USE DUCHENNE MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY

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Abstract
Nine boys with Duchenne muscular dystrophy, chairbound but without scoliosis, were fitted with a recently developed brace of metal and molded medium-density polyethylene, the modified Calot brace. Each was also fitted with a wrap-around, molded leather jacket. Each brace held the relaxed lumbar spine in an angle of lordosis similar to that achieved by a brief active effort to sit erect without a brace. Over-all, they proved equally acceptable to patients and carers. The modified Calot brace caused substantially less restriction of pulmonary function, and so may be preferable to the molded leather jacket.

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