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A survey of the usage of the Scott-Craig Orthosis among individuals with Li or above complete motor and sensory paraplegia is reported. Patients were grouped according to those without volitionally controlled abdominal musculature (C8-T5), those with volitionally controlled upper abdominal musculature (T6-T9), and those with all abdominal musculature under volitional control (T10-L1). The study was done in two phases. Phase I, done in 1976, consisted of a survey of 184 patients in this neurological grouping who received the Scott-Craig Orthosis at Craig Hospital from 1 January 1964 through to 31 December 1975. Phase II was completed in December 1980. Sixty-three additional patients were surveyed who were braced from 1 January 1976 through to 31 December 1979. Long-term usage and some form of ambulation was found in 77 per cent of those surveyed.
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O'Daniel, W., Hahn, H. Follow-up usage of the Scott-Craig Orthosis in paraplegia. Spinal Cord 19, 373–378 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1038/sc.1981.70
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