- See: Cerebral Palsy:
- Non Operative Treatment:
- many patients can achieve functional sitting with body jackets or molded wheelchair inserts;
- Surgical Treatment:
- spine is instrumented from upper thoracic area to the sacrum;
- rods may be secured to the pelvis using the Galveston technique;
- curves > 80 deg and those w/ severe pelvic obliquity require combined anterior & posterior arthrodesis
Interspinous process segmental spinal instrumentation for scoliosis in cerebral palsy.
Progression of scoliosis after skeletal maturity in institutionalized adults who have cerebral palsy.