Review article

Postural adaptation of idiopathic adolescent scolioses (ias)

Vesna Filipović ; University of Applied Health Studies, Physiotherapy, Zagreb, Croatia
Dubravka Ciliga ; University of Zagreb, Faculty of Kinesiology, Zagreb, Croatia

Abstract

Idiopathic adolescent scoliosis (IAS) is a pathologic postural adaptation in 65% of cases of scolioses. The causes of this condition are determined or suggested by a series of scientific studies and clinical experience. The results of the studies imply the correlation of IAS, the pathologic movement pattern and the pathologic postural adaptation which is governed by the central nervous system’s mode of function. The pattern of pathologic postural adaptation has been confirmed by different methods and procedures: a physiological analysis of the soft tissues and of the specific functioning of organs’ systems, a biomechanical analysis of the muscles and joints, an analysis of mobility and the degree of motor function of body segments as well as of the whole body and also by the clinical experience gained from surgical and treatment procedures on children with IAS.

Keywords

idiopathic adolescent scoliosis; postural adaptation; IAS causes

Hrčak ID:

54238

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/54238

Publication date:

21.6.2010.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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