[Preventive measures for early and late locomotor complications from thoracoplasty and myoplasty]

Two basic methods of prevention of early- and late-occurring complications after thoracoplastic and myoplastic surgery are defined by the authors: I. The function protective surgical method and technique: by the retention of rib 1, the extramuscular periosteal thoracoplastic surgery, resection of as few ribs as possible, total performance of thoracoplastic and myoplastic surgery, epidural assuaging of pain. II. Perioperative physiotherapy and correct rehabilitative treatment, where gymnastics plays the most important role, and also combined application of the different special methods of physiotherapy, can also contribute to favourable results. 17 patients data have been processed and set out in the report. They show the efficiency of the applied methods. Planned and purposeful co-operation between the surgeon and the physiotherapist is needed in the medical treatment of patients.