Conservative management in patients with scoliosis-does it reduce the incidence of surgery?

Studies in Health Technology and Informatics

Volumn 91, Issue , 2002, Pages 342-347

  Weiss, Hans Rudolf ^a   Weiss, Grita ^a   Schaar, Hans Jürgen ^a  

^a Asklepios Katharina Schroth Klinik   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATIVE MANAGEMENT; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENTS; EARLY INTERVENTION; MATCHED CONTROLS; PATIENT EDUCATION; RETROSPECTIVE ANALYSIS; THERAPEUTIC INTERVENTION; UNTREATED CONTROL;

SURGERY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AMBULATORY CARE; ARTICLE; BRACE; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; PHYSIOTHERAPY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCOLIOSIS; SPINE FUSION; STATISTICS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AMBULATORY CARE; BRACES; CHILD; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; OUTCOME AND PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PATIENT ADMISSION; PHYSICAL THERAPY MODALITIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SCOLIOSIS; SPINAL FUSION;

EID: 16544367029     PISSN: 09269630     EISSN: 18798365     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.3233/978-1-60750-935-6-342     Document Type: Conference Paper

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