Scoliosis in Children with Cerebral Palsy

radiographic researches of 100 cases

Abstract

(1) We made radiographic researches of the spine in 100 children with cerebral palsy, and found 83 cases of scoliosis in them.
(2) Most of these cases are throught to be functional scoliosis, and only 6 cases are true structual scoliosis.
(3) In this series, it is suggested that the incidence of structual scoliosis in athetotic type is higher than in spastic type, and then its incidence in children incapable of walking is higher than the capable.
(4) It may be that the functional disturbance of the spine in cerebral palsy causes scoliosis, therefore the functional training prevent these scoliosis.