Surgical management of SSI followed by a 6-week antibiotic treatment is associated with favourable outcome. Anaerobic bacteria seem to play a role in the occurrence of relapses. A 6-week reduction in antibiotic treatment leads to reduction in cost and, likely, also to reduction in the emergence and spread of resistant microorganisms.

As for idiopathic scoliosis, we postulate the EOS system as being superior to standard radiographs to assess 3D spinal deformities in neuromuscular conditions. The EOS-CHAIR protocol improves preoperative comprehension of the lumbosacral junction anatomy in patients with poor standing or sitting postures. Our results show a very high reliability of three different angular measurements of the frontal pelvic obliquity in sitting position. Then it is possible to use one of these three angles as well as the others to assess frontal pelvic obliquity in neuromuscular patients. This frontal pelvic obliquity protocol in sitting position with the EOS-CHAIR is a validated measurement technique that needs to be used now to measure PO as a critical parameter of the global trunk balance in neuromuscular patients.

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