The Physical and Mental Health in the Conservative Treatment of the Idiopathic Scoliosis

IntroductionIdiopathic scoliosis may lead to physical and psychosocial impairment as it mostly appears before and/or during puberty. Both ability of young patients to confront the stress of a chronic disease and self esteem, affect their psychosomatic development and their future quality of life. Purpose of this study was to describe and evaluate health associated quality of life in patients with idiopathic scoliosis.Material and MethodsIn this study the physical and mental health of 69 young patients with idiopathic scoliosis was compared with a control group of the same age. The patients were treated with a Cheneau brace because of Idiopathic scoliosis with Cobb angles between 15°and 40°. We used a modified short form 36 questionnaire. We evaluated the eight sections of the SF-36 questionnaire in both groups (vitality, physical functioning, bodily pain, general health perceptions, physical role functioning, emotional role functioning, social role functioning, mental health). The statistical analysis was...