Scoliosis in neuromuscular disorders
- 1 March 1980
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in International Orthopaedics
- Vol. 3 (4) , 323-328
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00266029
Abstract
Summary Hundred-seventy patients with the 4 commonest degenerative neuro-muscular disorders (limbgirdle and Duchenne muscular dystrophy, Kugelberg-Welander's spinal muscular atrophy and peroneal muscular atrophy) were screened for scoliosis, which was found in 56%. Of 76 patients in the early stages of their respective discorders (stages 1–6 of Gardner-Medwin and Walton), scoliosis was found in 72%. The incidence of scoliosis was not related to the duration or degree of clinical weakness. Morphologically, scoliosis in these disorders was not found to differ from idiopathic scoliosis. Neither side nor site of the scoliosis were related to the distribution of muscle weakness as determined by manual testing.Keywords
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