Orthotics of Patient with Poliomyelitis and Power Lifting |Biomedgrid

A special category of Paralympian athletes can be attributed to people with disorders of the musculoskeletal system. In turn, among them a small group of athletes who had undergone the disease poliomyelitis, which are paralytic deformities of the spine and lower extremities. A clinical case is the result of orthotic fitting after surgery of a woman, of 30 years, who had childhood poliomyelitis, with severe consequences in the form of scoliosis of the spine 3 degrees and paralytic deformities of the feet. The patient traveled in a wheelchair or using crutches. It was manufactured orthopedic devices and spine orthosis. After the orthotics the patient was able to move independently and successfully engage in powerlifting.