A Comparison of the Effectiveness of Surgical and Nonsurgical Treatment of Legg-Calve-Perthes Disease: A Review of the Literature

Table 4

Results of containment research studies.

Research	Number of subjects	Gender	Age (year)	Follow-up period (year)	Method	Results (%)
Martinez et al. [20]	60	49 male, 11 female	5–11	1.5	Abduction orthosis	60.3 good, 30.9 fair, 8.8 poor
Herndon et al. [21]	17	No information	7	No information	Brace	64.7 good, 17.6 fair, 17.6 poor
Meehan et al. [22]	34	No information	8	6.7	Scottish Rite orthosis	9 good, 26 fair, 65 poor
Stulberg et al. [19]	88	76 male,12 female	7.5	47.3	Bed rest with sling	26 good, 25 fair, 49 poor
Harrison et al. [13]	233	160 male, 53 female	No information	5.8	Birmingham splint	57 good, 38 fair, 5 poor