OBSERVATIONS ON THE RESULTS OF TREATMENT OF SCOLIOSIS
- E. FLAGSTAD, M.D.
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The treatment of scoliosis is still an open problem. Almost every available procedure leaves something to be desired. Irrespective of the great work that has already been done, a solution is still being sought. In reading the literature on scoliosis, there is evidence of disagreement on various phases of this problem; this is possibly best explained because differences in procedures and results of treatment in a measure are dependent on the etiology of the curvature, the severity and location of the curve, the duration of the curvature and the cooperation of the patient. Probably no field of orthopedic surgery has been blessed or burdened with more apparatus, and it still remains to most of the profession somewhat defiant.
In reviewing the literature one is impressed by the fact that while in general there is a fairly definite accepted basic plan, the methods of attack and the results obtained are still
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Read before the Section on Orthopedic Surgery at the Eightieth Annual Session of the American Medical Association, Portland, Ore., July 10, 1929.
