title: [Conservative therapy of spondylolisthesis using body braces].
abstract: Twelve patients aged ten to eighteen years suffering from idiopathic scoliosis and a minor spondylolisthesis were treated by Milwaukee- or Bostonbrace during 12 to 38 months. According to Wiltse's results the spondylolysis was expected to heal under brace treatment in a certain number of cases. In fact it only happened twice out of twelve cases. The least chance for success was found when the tips of the interarticular bone parts showed a sclerosis in the x-ray-picture. We may suggest that brace treatment of minor spondylolysis or spondylolisthesis in adolescence is obviously not useful. Long term results are even worse.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001915:Braces; D002370:Casts, Surgical; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008159:Lumbar Vertebrae; D008297:Male; D011859:Radiography; D012600:Scoliosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000628:therapy; D013168:Spondylolisthesis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000628:therapy*; D013169:Spondylolysis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000628:therapy*
vernacular_title: Zur konservativen Therapie der Spondylolisthesis mit Rumpforthesen.