Photographing wheelchair-bound patients with neuromuscular scoliosis in a paediatric hospital.

This is an investigation of the photography services offered to children and adolescents with neuromuscular scoliosis at the spinal inpatient and outpatient clinic of Great Ormond Street Hospital. The spine service, in cooperation with the medical photography department, sought to identify what clinicians required in the content of photographs as part of the patients' routine clinical assessment, and also what equipment was available on the market to meet these requirements. Current techniques for obtaining medical photographs of this specific group of severely disabled children were also evaluated, and compared to a proposed method of obtaining photographs using the Mangar chair. The authors sought to develop a safe, reliable, patient-friendly and parent-friendly, and easily reproducible technique, which would provide accurate and consistent photographs, and adequately supplement the clinicians' evaluation of patients' conditions.