Our SEAS courses have not yet been able to restart in full due to the Coronavirus emergency. At the end of August, however, we managed to be present in Slovenia where Michele Romano, director of physiotherapy in Isico, held a first-level course: about twenty participants were allowed to participate to keep the necessary distances and […]
Receiving their first brace is a key moment in the treatment of youngsters affected by spinal deformities.This is the brace that shows them exactly what the treatment consists of. They learn about the pads, which are carefully positioned to correct their back; they become familiar with the fastener and how to adjust it to the […]
Unfortunately, it has become common to think of braces in the same way as we do drugs. But before we go any further, we need to make one thing clear: whereas we all know that aspirin is not the same as paracetamol, in the case of a brace, the name doesn’t really mean anything specific. […]
It has just been published a letter to the editor “The active self-correction component of scoliosis-specific exercises has results in the long term, while the stabilization component is sufficient in the short term” in the scientific journal Prosthetics and Orthotics International. “This is a comment to the study “Core stabilization exercises versus scoliosis-specific exercises in moderate idiopathic […]
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. Extreme long-term outcome of operatively versus conservatively treated patients with adolescent idiopathic scoliosisMazda Farshad, Lucas Kutschke, Christoph J. Laux, Method Kabelitz, Regula Schüpbach, Thomas Böni& Thorsten Jentzsch European Spine Journal 2020 – DOI: 10.1007/s00586-020-06509-1 Purpose: We report on […]
The importance of keeping scoliosis under control through regular specialist check-ups is well known, and this is also true in adulthood when the condition can continue to evolve, albeit slowly and gradually (by half/one degree per year according to the literature). Although curves measuring less than 30° are unlikely to progress (and a progression becomes […]
Adolescence and bracing are two challenges that can be difficult to face simultaneously. In our view, this is perfectly natural and understandable. Adolescence is usually perceived as a difficult phase during which young people are still immature, tend to be irrational, and struggle to control their emotions. However, research studies focusing on the development of […]
At the International Sosort Meeting in June, this year held for the first time ever entirely online, Isico recorded another great success. Dr Sabrina Donzelli, Isico physiatrist, won the Sosort Award, the event’s top prize, for her research entitled: “Predicting final results of Brace Treatment of Adolescents with Idiopathic Scoliosis: First Out-of-Brace are Better than […]
Summer is here at last and it is finally time to go on your long-awaited summer holidays. The problem is, you have to take a particularly annoying friend with you – your back brace, which is particularly difficult to put up with at this time of year. Yes, spending summer in a brace is another […]
Sometimes, even when a patient has followed the prescribed course of treatment (bracing and exercises), the final outcome isn’t what they expected and there are no marked improvements. Why is this? Let’s start by reiterating something we all know to be a fact. Scoliosis is a disease that can strike with varying degrees of severity […]