Pediatrics & Therapeutics
Open Access
ISSN: 2161-0665
+44 1478 350008
ISSN: 2161-0665
+44 1478 350008
Christina Sasseville
The King�s University, Canada
Posters & Accepted Abstracts: Pediat Therapeut
Participation in activities at home and in the community following surgery for back conditions: Participation in sports, physical activity, and community activities is important for the physical and socio-emotional health of children. For children with scoliosis, levels of participation may be different from their peers; to encourage participation, psychosocial factors may need to be explored. Furthermore, it needs to be clear that if the activities of children and adolescents with scoliosis engage in change after surgery, and if there are any guidelines which exist to tell them what activities they can and cannot engage in? To answer these queries, methods included writing a literature review to examine studies that addressed the physical and community activities engaged in by children who underwent surgery for scoliosis. Children from a scoliosis clinic completed a questionnaire related to the activities they engaged in post-surgery. A select number of these same children were interviewed for follow-up information related to their participation in activities.