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Review Papers | Medicine Science | Albania | Volume 4 Issue 11, November 2015

Assessment of Quality of Life and Hazard Issues Involving Worth of Life in Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis

Irena Kola ^[2] | Sander Kola | Gjovalin Valca ^[3] | Enkelejda Shkurti ^[4] | Diamant Shtiza ^[8]

Abstract: Background Adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS) is a frequent illness guiding to spinal distortion in children ages 10 and above. With the progress in the survey of health-related quality of life (HRQoL), bigger awareness has been offered to the quality of life (QoL) of subjects with AIS and their insight of distortion as opposed to just focusing on increasing the rate of surgical modification. Aim/Methods This review affords a summary of the techniques of assessing HRQoL and it examines numerous major issues influencing QoL, like harshness of illness, technique of healing, sex, and social setting, based on preceding surveys of patients with AIS. Results Support treatment is an essential outline of traditional treatment for patients with AIS, and this therapy can considerably decrease the harshness and the progress of AIS. Various investigators consider that patients with AIS who experience brace therapy may sense timid and have interior stress as an outcome of lifestyle or studying. Consequently, the mental wellbeing of patients with AIS should be assessed and checked to decrease the harmful psychosomatic results of brace treatment. Conclusion The researchers consider that radiological surveys should no longer be acquired as the single sign of postoperative remedial appraisal and expect to construct a new appraisal scheme with estimation of QoL for patients with AIS.

Keywords: Adolescent idiopathic scoliosis, quality of life, assessment, questionnaire, hazard issues

Edition: Volume 4 Issue 11, November 2015,

Pages: 2132 - 2135

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