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Can Angular Deformity Due to Sacrococcygeal Fracture Cause Permanent Impairment?: Current State and Problems in Korea
- Title
- Can Angular Deformity Due to Sacrococcygeal Fracture Cause Permanent Impairment?: Current State and Problems in Korea
- Authors
- Cho D.
- Ewha Authors
- 조도상
- SCOPUS Author ID
- 조도상
- Issue Date
- 2022
- Journal Title
- Journal of Korean Neurosurgical Society
- ISSN
- 2005-3711
- Citation
- Journal of Korean Neurosurgical Society vol. 65, no. 2, pp. 173 - 179
- Keywords
- Disability evaluation; Sacrococcygeal region; Spinal fractures
- Publisher
- Korean Neurosurgical Society
- Indexed
- SCIE; SCOPUS
- Document Type
- Review
- Abstract
- Disabilities can emerge due to traumatic spinal fractures. In terms of sacrococcygeal spine, because of its unique anatomic structure with minimal movement, the possibility for it to have a disability is relatively low. In Korea, unlike most disability criteria, private insurance companies acknowledge angular deformities caused by vertebral fractures as disabilities according to their degree, so there were several cases where patients required compensation, arguing angular deformity caused by sacrococcygeal fracture, which in some cases led to legal conflicts. Except the Act Welfare of Persons with Disabilities which recognizes only severe angular deformity affecting internal organs as disability and the industrial accident disability evaluation which does not recognize coccygeal fracture as disability but rarely recognizes sacral vertebra deformity equivalent to compressive deformation, there is little or no case where angular deformity is recognized as disability. Given the impairment evaluation standards in social insurance, McBride system, American Medical Association (AMA) guides, and newly proposed standards by the Korean Academy of Medical Sciences (KAMS), the most contentious point in the general terms and conditions of private insurance is spinal deformity. To overcome controversy over disability evaluation, the private insurance sector is now applying criteria for axial skeleton to sacrococcygeal vertebrae through revision of standards. Under these circumstances, it is fair to recognize sacrococcygeal fracture as impairment in terms of the pelvis only when the fracture leaves serious deformity and neurological symptoms with clear relevancy. Though it may not be easy to develop accurate disability evaluation standards, improvement is necessary to remove any irrationalities and make the standards as objective as possible. © 2022 The Korean Neurosurgical Society.
- DOI
- 10.3340/jkns.2021.0171
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- 의과대학 > 의학과 > Journal papers
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