This is a question many parents ask us when scoliosis is diagnosed. Perhaps their child has a particularly tricky curve, or maybe they themselves can remember dealing with the same condition when they were young. It is the same question we were recently asked by the mother of a five-year-old girl who, at this tender […]
Isico will also be present at the ISPRM Congress in Cartagena, Colombia, from June 4th to 8th. The motto of the international conference will be “New perspectives in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation for global health challenges” thus representing the intention of focusing on the current and future rehabilitation health needs of people around the world. […]
From May 23 to 26, Stefano Negrini, scientific director of Isico, participated as a Cochrane representative in an event of the World Health Assembly, the main decision-making body of WHO. The event is co-organised by missions to WHO from five countries and several scientific, professional, and patient organisations in the field of rehabilitation. The theme of […]
And once again, the winner is… Isico! For the fifth consecutive year, our institute has been awarded the prestigious SOSORT Award, recognising our innovative and cutting-edge research focused on Artificial Intelligence in the rehabilitation treatment of the spine. The winning research, titled “Developing a new tool for scoliosis screening in a tertiary specialist setting using […]
Once again, the international SOSORT conference was one of the most important appointments for our institute (eight abstracts were presented), and with a cherry on top, the fifth SOSORT Award was won!We asked Dr Sabrina Donzelli, physiatrist and president of SOSORT in 2024, the first woman to hold this position, to tell us something more […]
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. Bridging Motor Learning Principles with Physiotherapy Specific Scoliosis Exercises: a Perspective Article Marissa Muccio, Osnat Atun-Einy, Michal Kafri, Sandra L Kaplan Phys Occup Ther Pediatr 2023 Mar 15;1-18.doi: 10.1080/01942638.2023.2186198 Abstract Aim: This perspective paper […]
Developing a new tool for scoliosis screening in a tertiary specialist setting using artificial intelligence: a retrospective study on 10,813 patients is one of the ISICO studies due to be presented at the next SOSORT conference, which will take place in Melbourne, Australia. The fact that the study is also a candidate for the SOSORT […]
2003-2023: 20 years of activity, two decades of steady growth, from a small clinic in Milan staffed by a handful of specialists to our current network of centres in 37 cities and a team of 101 medical/health professionals and administrative staff. Over the past 20 years, we have looked after over 51,000 patients and created […]
There are 8 abstracts, which will be presented by Isico at the annual Sosort international conference, held from May 1–5 in Melbourne, Australia. Once again, Isico will be in the front row at the International SOSORT meeting, and one of the abstracts, entitled “Developing a new tool for scoliosis screening in a tertiary specialist setting […]
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. Patients with Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis Have Higher Metabolic Cost during High-Intensity Interval Training Rufina Wing-Lum Lau, Rachel Lai-Chu Kwan, Jack Chun-Yiu Cheng, Stanley Sai-Chuen Hui, Tsz-Ping Lam Int J Eviron Res Public Health […]