Rehabilitation and Pain Management in Klippel-Feil Syndrome Associated With Caroli's Disease, Scoliosis, and Aphasia

Abstract

Klippel-Feil syndrome (KFS) is often underdiagnosed. Medical imaging studies suggest that its incidence may be higher than currently recognized. Although surgical treatment has been extensively studied, non-surgical approaches, such as physiotherapy, rehabilitation, and pain management, receive comparatively less attention. We report the case of an 18-year-old girl being treated for a malformation syndrome consisting of a rare condition, Caroli's disease with aphasia, who was referred for movement limitations associated with scoliosis and cervicobrachial neuralgia. The main objective of this article is to present a case of malformation syndrome associated with KFS, Caroli's disease, and scoliosis in an aphasic patient, as well as the difficulty of medical management, mainly rehabilitation and pain management outside of surgery.