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 […]
The aim of our study “The three-dimensional analysis of the Sforzesco brace correction ”, published by Scoliosis and Spinal Disorders, is to analyse the Sforzesco Brace correction, through all the parameters provided by Eos 3D imaging system. This is a cross-sectional study from a prospective database started in March 2003.The study took into account 16 […]
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. Reliable Skeletal Maturity Assessment for an AIS Patient Cohort: External Validation of the Proximal Humerus Ossification System (PHOS) and Relevant Learning MethodologyTheodor Di Pauli von Treuheim, Don T Li […]
Can scoliosis harm the respiratory system? Patients often ask us this question, as it is an aspect that particularly worries them. The main purpose of the rib cage – we have 12 ribs – is to protect vital organs such as the heart and lungs. Scoliosis, as we know, takes the form of spinal abnormalities […]
While Isico has organized to reopen in total safety its clinics throughout Italy (the reopening was on May 11th ), our work never stopped thanks to the Telemedicine, started two months ago. Weeks later, we are sure that it was the best choice for this specific moment we are experiencing because it allowed us to […]
Many people are saying that the present coronavirus epidemic will change our whole way of being: our relations with others and the way we see things. Indeed, this health emergency has forced practically all of us to change our habits and our way of life. Perhaps we should therefore also be asking ourselves whether, 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. Interrater reliability of three-dimensional reconstruction of the spine : Low-dose stereoradiography for evaluating bracing in adolescent idiopathic scoliosis. Almansour H1, Pepke W1, Rehm J2, Bruckner T3, Spira D2, Akbar M4 Orthopade. 2020 Apr;49(4):350-358. doi: 10.1007/s00132-019-03712-x. BACKGROUND […]
Is there an alternative treatment to another in adults with scoliosis who suffer from back pain? The answer is no, simply because therapy is made up of several steps. It just has been published by the scientific journal Annals of Translational Medicine the editorial comment of Isico “Symptomatic adult spinal deformity: implications for treatment“. A comment to […]
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. Prevalence of the thoracic scoliosis in children and adolescents candidates for strabismus surgery: results from a 1935-patient cross-sectional study in China. Pan XX, Huang CA, Lin JL, Zhang ZJ, […]