June is the month of scoliosis and during this #scoliosisawarenessmonth we are sharing images, videos and testimonials on our social networks to remember the importance of it. Today is the time for a story that years ago won our Concorsetto in 2019. A text written by a young patient, Leonardo Vener, entitled “The tin man”. […]
As every year, Isico dresses in green throughout June with a particular initiative. During the four weeks of the month, we will release dedicated posts on our social networks where each time we will share something different: a video, a testimony or an image to talk about scoliosis and how it is possible to live your daily life and […]
Finished SOSORT Meeting, ISICO physiatrist Fabio Zaina headed to Boston where the 48th ISSLS Annual Meeting, another international event that, following the hiatus due to the pandemic, could finally be staged in the normal way again. Dr Zaina represented ISICO by giving a presentation which was one of the 8 selected for presentation to the general assembly at the […]
We asked physiatrist Dr Sabrina Donzelli, one of our doctors at ISICO, to tell us about the highlights and significance of SOSORT, the international conference held at the start of May in San Sabastian. We knew that the event would be an important occasion for the specialists in attendance, as they had not been able […]
It is a bit as if an appointment had been made from all over the world for the launch of the Sforzesco online course, which started last May 18 with the first module, given that there are 12 countries from which the various participants are coming. From Brazil to Cambodia, from Singapore to Malaysia passing […]
For the fourth consecutive year, Isico has obtained the most prestigious award for those involved in rehabilitative treatment of the spine, winning the SOSORT Award with the study Prediction of Future Curve Angle using Prior Visit Information in Previously Untreated Idiopathic Scoliosis: Natural History in Patients under 26 Years Old with Prior Radiographs. The research, which […]
This year’s SOSORT meeting, held in San Sebastian, Spain in the wake of two editions forced online by the pandemic, was a double success for ISICO, which had two studies shortlisted for the SOSORT Award. One of them, Prediction of Future Curve Angle using Prior Visit Information in Previously Untreated Idiopathic Scoliosis: Natural History in […]
Every year, the Italian Scoliosis Study Group selects the best published papers on conservative spine treatment from the global scientific literature.Here is the abstract from one of these papers. The Hereditary Nature of Adolescent Spinal Deformities-A study of over 600,000 adolescents Yair Zloof, Ran Ankory Amit Elbaz Braun, Maya Braun, Shlomi Abuhasira, Naama Schwartz, Dotan Yaari, Elon Glassberg, Amir Shlaifer Spine, 2022 Apr. 21, PMID: 35472202, DOI: 10.1097/BRS.0000000000004355 Abstract Study design: A […]
About spinal disorders like scoliosis, it is often said that prevention is just as important as treatment. Before we go any further, let’s clarify a few things, starting with the definitions of screening and scoliosis. Screening is an activity involving rapid tests, examinations or other procedures, and its purpose is to detect the possible presence […]
Most parents of a child with scoliosis embark on a similar journey: once they have received the initial diagnosis, they start consulting other specialists, seeking second or third opinions that might provide them with the confirmation and reassurance they need, and/or simply answers to further questions and doubts that have cropped up in the meantime. […]