Follow-up usage of the scott-craig Orthosis in paraplegia

A survey of the usage of the Scott-Craig Orthosis among individuals with LI or above complete motor and sensory paraplegia is reported. Patients were grouped according to those without volitionally controlled abdominal musculature (C8-T5), those with volitionally controlled upper abdominal musculature (T6-T9), and those with all abdominal musculature under volitional control (T10-LI). The study was done in two phases. Phase I, done in 1976, consisted of a survey of 184 patients in this neurological grouping who received the Scott-craig Orthosis at Craig Hospital from 1 January 1964 through to 31 December 1975. Phase II was completed in December 1980. Sixty-three additional patients were surveyed who were braced from 1 January 1976 through to 31 December 1979. Long-term usage and some form of ambulation was found in 77 per cent of those surveyed.