Orthoses Type and Action

Rigid orthoses may also be referred to as "inextensible"; soft orthoses may also be referred to as "extensible". For your exam, you will be expected to recall the primary action of selected orthoses and make clinical decisions about patient safety and signs and symptosm of orthosis misfit.

Acronym

 

Name

 

Primary Action

SIO

 

Sacroiliac orthosis

 

Limit motion at bilateral SI joints

LSO

 

Lumbosacral orthosis

Knight LSO may be indicated for discogenic-mechanical pain

 

Knight LSO

 

Williams LSO for may be indicated to reduce signs and symptoms of stenosis or spondylolisthesis

Limits flexion at lumbar and lumbosacral spine

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Soft strap across abdomen allows flexion, rigid posterior and lateral stays limit extension, sidebending,

and rotation

TLSO

 

Thoracolumbosacral orthosis

Milwaukie Brace

alternative accessible content Kyphosis brace1

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Corrective for scoliosis; limits thoracic and lumbar flexion and extension; lateral straps are adjusted to stabilize against sidebending according to type of scoliosis

Halo Vest Orthosis

Image of Skeleton in Halo Vest Orthoses for Cervical stabilization
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Image of man with cervical traction applied through halo pins
Cervical traction post trauma

BruceBlaus / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0);

http://www0.sun.ac.za/ortho/webct-ortho/general/trac/trac-3.html

 

Protective post-cervical facture with instability; limits cranial and cervical motion in all planes

 

Allows a superior traction force to be placed on the cervical spine to facilitate bone healing and reduce facet dislocations

CTLSO

 

 

Cervico-thoracolumbosacral orthosis

CTLSO

Image of a cervical-thoraco-lumbosacral orthosis
https://www.flickr.com/photos/vculibraries/6032098209/

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Corrective for scoliosis; limits cervical, thoracic and lumbar flexion and extension; lateral straps are adjusted to stabilize against sidebending according to type of scoliosis

 

CTO

 

 

Cervical thoracic orthosis / Rigid Cervical Collar;

Trade names include: Philadelphia Collar; Aspen Collar

alternative accessible content Philadelphia Collar

 

 

Limits all cervical motion; commonly applied post-trauma to protect spine and spinal cord; protective orthosis post-whiplash

 

Soft Garments and Supports

Acronym

 

Name

 

Primary function

Mode of Action

SI belt

 

Sacroiliac belt

SI Belt

http://activeortho.com/si_belt_for_sacroiliac_pain.html

Support SI joint

 

Mild lower abdominal compression

 

LS Corset

Lumbosacral corset

Lumbosacral corset

Reduce overall gross trunk motion

Compresses abdominal tissue; decreasing axial vertebral load; reduce spinal muscle activity

DL corset

 

DL corset (also known as thoracolumbar

Thoracolumbar soft support for promoting thoracic extension
Rick Patel / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)

 

Reduce overall gross trunk motion

 

Compresses abdominal tissue; decreasing axial vertebral load; reduce spinal muscle activity

 

Soft collar

 

Nonreinforced cervical collars made from foam

or any low modulus material

  alternative accessible content Soft Cervical Collar

Reduce overall gross cervical motion

 

Compresses cervical soft tissue; decreasing axial vertebral load; reduce spinal muscle activity