Treatment for those who suffer from this disease will be provided in a number of departments of major acute and children's hospitals, particularly orthopaedic departments.
Scoliosis, orthopaedic and orthotic requirements should be reassessed at each follow-up; it is clearly superior if an orthopaedic service with interest and experience in muscle disease is used.
Additionally, because this exercise is nonweight bearing, it may be better adapted for special populations, including patients with obesity, diabetes or arthritis, who are prone to orthopaedic injuries.
A retrospective orthopaedic case series revealed a higher proportion of 'treatable' and identifiable pathology in patients over 50 years.
Ideally, any women with persistent symptoms or disability postnatally should be referred to an orthopaedic surgeon for assessment.
A comparison of orthopaedic surgeons' self reported performance rates with surgical indications, contraindications, and expected outcomes.
These are defined as fractures, radiotherapy to bone, hypercalcaemia of malignancy, orthopaedic surgery and spinal cord compression.
Many physiotherapists are involved, especially in their training, with post-operative orthopaedic patients, where 'gentlygently' is obviously necessary.
