From May 10th to 13th, Alessandra Negrini, physiotherapist, and Michele Romano, director of physical therapy at Isico, were at the WCPT (World Confederation for Physical Therapy) Congress in Geneva, Switzerland. WCPT is the sole international “voice” for physical therapy, representing more than 450,000 physical therapists worldwide. Alessandra Negrini talked about Sport and Scoliosis by presenting the study SPORTS ACTIVITY REDUCES […]
Isico will be at the forthcoming ISSLS Annual Meeting in Kyoto (June 3 to 7), a training event of the highest scientific and cultural level aimed at those dealing with spinal disorders. Founded in 1974, the International Society for the Study of the Lumbar Spine (ISSLS) is a non-profit organisation whose purpose is to bring together those individuals, throughout the […]
An Isico study entitled The Italian Spine Youth Quality of Life questionnaire measures health-related quality of life of adolescents with spinal deformities better than the reference standard, the Scoliosis Research Society 22 questionnaire, by Antonio Caronni, Sabrina Donzelli, Fabio Zaina and Stefano Negrini, was recently published in Clinical Rehabilitation. The aim of this cross-sectional study was to compare […]
Alessia Mancini, 17, a patient at our centre since she was just 10 years old, has become the star of a brief video recounting her exciting and remarkable journey. Although the video last only a few minutes, this is long enough to convey the heartwarming story of this young patient, a dancer who loves nothing more than dancing en pointe! […]
Isico was among the participants at the 1st International Conference on Scoliosis Management that took place on April 12-13, 2019 in Istanbul. This important scientific event, held at the Akıngüç Auditorium and Art Center of Istanbul Kultur University, Istanbul, was the first international conference on scoliosis to be organised in Turkey. Dr Fabio Zaina, an Isico physiatrist, and Michele […]
What’s the best way of fastening a rigid brace (Cheneau or Sforzesco type) by yourself? Is it best to do it standing up, or lying down? And, most important, is it even possible?! Let’s start by making one thing clear. When a person with scoliosis is standing up, their curve will be more marked than when […]
The cover of the March issue of Annals of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine is devoted to the Isico study entitled Specific exercises reduce the need for bracing in adolescents with idiopathic scoliosis: A practical clinical trial. “ To be featured on the front cover of an international journal is a first for us, and a source of great […]
It’s a fact: full-time brace wearers who do sport are more likely to see their scoliosis improve compared with those who don’t do sport. This is the result of the study entitled “EFFECT OF SPORT ACTIVITY ADDED TO FULL-TIME BRACING IN 785 RISSER 0–2 ADOLESCENTS WITH HIGH DEGREE IDIOPATHIC SCOLIOSIS”,which will be presented at the […]
Aim: To create a classification of braces, with the help of a panel of super experts from all over the world. This initiative, born of the synergy between three scientific societies, SOSORT, SRS and ISPO , is being coordinated by Prof. Stefano Negrini, scientific director of Isico. We are appealing to scoliosis bracing experts to join in this multi-society effort geared […]
The Isico study “Adolescent agonistic tennis and spinal diseases, what’s the connection? Results from a cross-sectional study” contradicted the idea that asymmetrical sports are harmful: in the literature, tennis, like other asymmetrical sports, is considered a possible cause of back pain and, in the worst cases, a cause of worsening scoliosis. “Tennis is played by many adolescents […]