Effect of preferred walking speed on the upper body range of motion and mechanical work during gait before and after spinal fusion for patients with idiopathic scoliosis

Spinal fusion improves pelvic and thorax-pelvis mobility (during the stance phase) in the frontal plane. The impact of scoliosis on the upper body range of motion was limited on the thorax-pelvis, corresponding to a stiffening effect. With such restrictions, an increase in normalized external work was observed for similar normalized internal work.
Source: Clinical Biomechanics - Category: Orthopaedics Authors: Tags: Lecture Source Type: research