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Bibliographic resources - Activities - Case reports - Golden rules

Abstract taken from the message presented at the

Update Day on Scoliosis Treatment

organized by:

GSS - Gruppo di Studio della Scoliosi e delle patologie vertebrali
ISICO - Istituto Scientifico Italiano COlonna vertebrale
www.isico.it

Milan, November 8th 2003

 

SCOLIOSES ARE NOT RADIOGRAPHS

Staments, by eminent scientists, on brace treatment and on the importance of cosmetic results in scoliosis treatment.

Stagnara(4): "Scolioses are not radiographs, but human beings with a spinal deviation."

Winter e Lonstein(5): "Brace efficacy has been proven beyond all doubt by the study presented by Nachemson(2) to the Scoliosis Research Society. In most cases, treatment stops scoliosis progression."

Sibilla(3): There are "5 golden rules" regarding brace treatment for adolescent idiopathic scoliosis. Patients who complete the therapy by following these rules obtain a cosmetic modelling of body deformity, that satisfies their expectations."

Mehta(1): "For the patient it is body deformity that counts most. Physicians worry about radiographic deformity, but what the patient really wants to obtain from treatment is the eradication of cosmetic deformity and of the correlated psychological distress."

Clinical reports

5 golden rules

 


Bibliografia
1. Mehta M. The Cobb angle should not be used in the management of scoliosis. In Proceedings 1st International Symposium on 3-D scoliotic deformities. Montréal: Fisher Verlag, 1992: 59-60.
2. Nachemson AL, Peterson LE. Effectiveness of treatment with a brace in girls who have adolescent idiopathic scoliosis. The Bone Joint Surg 1995;77A(6):815-21.
3. Sibilla P.: Il trattamento conservativo attivo della scoliosi idiopatica in Italia. In Negrini S, Sibilla P Eds. Le deformità vertebrali: stato dell’arte. Vigevano, Gruppo di Studio della Scoliosi, 2002. 2: 20-41.
4. Stagnara P. Les déformations du rachis. Ed. Masson, Paris, 1985.
5. Winter RW, Lonstein JE. Editorial. Brace or Not to Brace: The True Value of School Screening. Spine 1997:22(12);1283-1284.

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