Effect of pelvic fixation on ambulation in children with neuromuscular scoliosis

Table 1 Patient demographics

		Ambulatory	Non-ambulatory	Total	P value
Gender					0.405
	Female	4	53	57
	Male	7	54	61
Race
	Black	2	70	72
	White	8	32	40
	Hispanic	0	2	2
	Asian	0	1	1
	Other	1	2	3
Age at surgery		16.91 (4.93)	13.32 (3.32)	13.65 (3.63)	0.122
Average follow-up		18.43	18.43	19.14
Diagnosis
	Cerebral palsy	5	85	90
	Post-traumatic spinal cord injury	0	10	10
	Spina bifida	0	7	7
	Myopathy	2	0	2
	Muscular dystrophy	1	2	3
	Spinal muscular atrophy	0	2	2
	Alexander’s disease	0	1	1
	Charcot marie tooth	1	0	1
	Pelizaeus merzbacher disease	0	1	1
	Lennox gastaut syndrome	1	0	1
	Geroderma osteodysplasia	1	0	1

Table 2 Preoperative and postoperative deformity measurements

	Preoperative		Postoperative		Average correction
	Major curve magnitude	Pelvic obliquity	Major curve magnitude	Pelvic obliquity	Major curve magnitude	Pelvic obliquity
Ambulatory	60.1 (28-110)	7.8 (2-14)	26.9 (12-61)	4.7 (0-15)	33.2	3.1
Non-ambulatory	70 (12-140)	15.5 (0-47)	26.4 (2-81)	8.3 (0-37)	43.6	7.2
P value	0.221	0.000	0.912	0.122

Mean values with range within parentheses, all values in degrees.

Table 3 Complication profile between ambulatory and non-ambulatory groups

	Reoperation rate	Infection rate	Hardware failure rate
Overall	18.6	12.7	5.9
Ambulatory	18.2	0	9.1
Non-ambulatory	18.7	14	5.6
P value	0.239	0.365	0.505

All values in percentages.