Michael Shainline

TL;DR: It would appear from this study that common nonoperative treatments do not change the quality of life in patients with ASLS at 2-year follow-up, however, operative treatment does significantly improve the QOL for this group of patients.

TL;DR: S surgically treated patients had significantly less back pain and disability and improved health status compared with nonoperatively treated patients at the time of the 2-year follow-up evaluation, suggesting surgery can offer significant improvement of back pain for adults with scoliosis.

TL;DR: Surgical treatment has the potential to provide significant improvement of leg pain in adults with scoliosis and is counseled regarding operative and nonoperative management options and is in general encouraged to maximize nonoperative treatments.

TL;DR: Surgical treatment in adult scoliosis significantly improved pain, self-image, and function based on the health-related quality of life measures used in this study, suggesting that the SRS tool is more responsive than ODI, which is moreresponsive than SF-12 to change brought on by primary surgical treatment of adult scliosis patients.

TL;DR: If models for predicting outcome and complications in the setting of adult deformity surgery can be constructed will help establish reliable clinical models such that treatment algorithms can be established for the challenging patients suffering from adult spinal deformity.