The Use of Halo-femoral Traction in the Treatment of Scoliosis / 대한정형외과학회잡지

ABSTRACT

Of 29 scoliotic patients treated by Harrington and Dwyer instrumentation, fourteen patients were taken of preoperative cnrrection by halo-femoral skeletal traction for the last two years from June 1974 to June 1976 at the Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Seoul National University Hospital. The correctability of scoliosis by the use of halo-femoral traction was evaluated with roentgenogram study and the following result was obtained. 1. Of the 14 cases, five cases were male and eight were female, and they were between the age of 13 and 29. 2. The etiology of the 14 scoliosis was idiopathic in three, paralytic in eight, congenital in one, and associated with neurofibromatosis in two. 3. The average initial curve was 108 degress with the flexibility of 32.1% on side bending. 4. The average preoperative curve with halo-femoral traction for one week was 75. 1 (30.5% correction), and the end of two week was 68 (37% correction). 5. The average immediate postoperative curve was 58.5 (46.5% correction). 6. The result of traction in the different etiologic type showes no significant difference.