Correction of scoliosis due to paraplegia sustained in paediatric age-group [proceedings]

At the present time our preventive methods do not fully prevent the occurrence of scoliosis subsequent to juvenile paraplegia. The methods of management must be: (a) preventive; (b) early non-operative correction, such as braces; and by (c) operative correction. The operative correction must be both an anterior and posterior procedure to give good spinal alignment. Further follow-up over many years will be necessary to watch these cases, but the initial results are satisfactory re correction. Function has been improved in both (a) respiration and (b) mobility, but at the 'expense' of reduction in some areas of recreation.