Our very best wishes for Christmas and 2020: a whole new year for each of us to “shape” as we like! Our greetings come to you with a story. More than just a trip down memory lane (to the bike rides and dripping lollipops of our youth), “Liquorice Wheels” is a story of hope: a […]
Every year, the 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. Advantages and Disadvantages of Adult Spinal Deformity Surgery and its Impact on Health-related Quality of Life. Oshida G, Boissiere L, Larrieu D, Bourghli A, Vital JM, Gille O, Pointillart V, […]
Marta Pagnini is a former Italian gymnast, captain of the Italian National Rhythmic Gymnastics Team, a Knight of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic and a member of the Air Force Military Corps and … she has scoliosis! Discovered when she was thirteen years old initially treated with only exercises, she had to […]
The answer is yes, and they are indeed fundamental, but sometimes exercises alone are not enough. Whether or not an exercise-based treatment is sufficient depends, above all, on the severity of the curves and the evolutionary potential of the scoliosis itself, which is partly determined by growth. Therefore, exercises sometimes need to be combined with […]
Our paper entitled “The natural history of idiopathic scoliosis during growth: a meta-analysis” was published some months ago in the American Journal of Physical Rehabilitation. The research focuses on 13 studies in the scientific literature that examine the natural history of idiopathic scoliosis, that is to say, the way scoliosis evolves in the absence of any […]
Cecilia is 18, and she has been wearing a brace for the past six years. Since she has learned a lot about herself over that time, she has decided to share, in words and pictures, her experience of growing up in a brace. And so here she is, captured with the “friend she loves to hate” in a […]
When talking about scoliosis, one often immediately thinks of a condition that affects young people, but that is not always the case. In a study of 554 people aged between 50 and 84 years, scoliosis was diagnosed in 70% of cases, showing that this is also a common condition in older people, too.However, there are certain distinctions to be drawn, and it is […]
Registration is now open for Spine Week 2020 which will be held from April 27th to May 1st in Melbourne, Australia. It will be possible to register at a reduced rate until February 15th. The 15th International SOSORT meeting will also be held during SpineWeek from 27 to 29 April. The first SpineWeek meeting which was held in […]
www.scoliosi.org: the Isico blog that gives patients a voice! Over the past 13 years or more, we have published dozens of posts and thousands of comments on our forum dedicated to scoliosis.The Isico forum is a dedicated space where patients can ask questions and swap experiences, but it is also a place where those involved […]
In adult scoliosis patients with back pain, brace treatment reduced the pain at 1 month, and the improvement was found to be stable at 6 months. This is what emerged from the first prospective study on this topic. The research, by Isico, was published in Prosthetics and Orthotics International and entitled “Can bracing help adults with chronic back pain […]