Annales de réadaptation et de médecine physique : revue scientifique de la Société française de rééducation fonctionnelle de réadaptation et de médecine physique
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Ann Readapt Med Phys · Jan 2008
Determination of the influence of the Chêneau brace on quality of life for adolescent with idiopathic scoliosis.
The main objective is to determine the influence of treatment by Chêneau brace on the quality of life (QoL) of adolescents with idiopathic scoliosis. ⋯ The wearing of the Chêneau brace involves a significant reduction in the QoL whatever instruments of evaluations of QoL, QLPSD or VAS. The QoL of the full-time treated patients was the lowest followed part-time treated patients while the QoL of the patients without brace was the highest. However, the brace does not influence the back pain in idiopathic scoliosis at teenage.
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Ann Readapt Med Phys · Jan 2008
[Standardization of the Children's Orientation and Amnesia Test, French version, to evaluate post-traumatic amnesia in children].
The duration of post-traumatic amnesia (PTA), the period of altered memory that often follows traumatic brain injury (TBI), is a useful index of severity of TBI and a predictor of outcome after TBI. Yet, evaluating PTA in French-speaking brain-injured children is not standardized. ⋯ The COAT-VF, short and simple to administer, allows for an accurate evaluation of PTA duration in French children.