Bracing + exercises + adherence to treatment = a recipe for successful treatment!

Idiopathic scoliosis is a disease that causes abnormal growth of the spine.
Once a spinal curve has appeared, the vertebrae of a young patient are liable to become deformed in the three planes of space. This risk persists until he or she has finished growing. Through conservative treatment, we aim to ensure that our patients, as adults, will have a strong back.
In other words, we want them to reach adulthood with a healthy and functional spine.

To this end, there exist two main methods: specific physical exercises and bracing ...

Scoliosis Online Master: registrations open

The registration for the VII Edition of the Online Master Course "Principles and Practice of Scoliosis Conservative Treatment" 2022 is now possible.
The past editions were a great success and saw participants from all five continents engaged in an ongoing learning process, which is both captivating and effective.

Isico is keen to share its extensive clinical and scientific experience with course participants, in the hope that this will result, worldwide, in increased availability of good quality conservative treatment with a high success rate.
The PPSCT course is delivered entirely online and its development can be self-administered, through a dedicated online learning platform. It is divided into 16 modules, each lasting two or three weeks.
Every single module usually includes three recorded theoretical lectures (each about 45 minutes long), which participants can listen to at a time to suit themselves.
Each lecture recommends 2 or 3 scientific papers, to be read in order to complete the module task.
Each module includes Discussion Group sessions, focusing on specific aspects of the topic dealt with, within that module
For more info please visit the Online Master website and try a lesson for free.

Why the Master Scoliosis:

feedback from participants

We let the students of the edition 2020 talk on which are their impressions; from Hong Kong to Cairo, Portugal and Turkey and from Armenia to Canada so that they can tell you what makes our international training course unique for those involved in the rehabilitation treatment of vertebral pathologies.
In addition, Prof. Stefano Negrini, scientific director of Isico, explains in the video what the Online Master is, how it was born and the future challenges.

Watch the video

Isico at the SRS 56th

Annual Meeting

The SRS 56th Annual Meeting, running from 22 to 25 September, 2021, was a hybrid event that included a robust in-person programme live in Missouri, USA and a virtual component, to allow delegates who were unable to attend in person to follow and enjoy the event.
Isico took part with a podium presentation of its research ...

Congress in Sofia: Michele Romano awarded

In Sofia/Bulgaria, September 11-12, 2021 the VIII National Congress of the Association of Physiotherapists in Bulgaria: "Interdisciplinary approach and current trends in practice" took place.
The congress had a special section for the treatment of scoliosis and Michele Romano, head of physiotherapy in Isico, gave two presentations...

Isico at EUROSPINE 2021 in Vienna

The next EUROSPINE 2021 congress is back in-person from 6 to 8 October, in Vienna, Austria.
The aims of EUROSPINE are to stimulate the exchange of knowledge and ideas in the field of research, prevention and treatment of spine diseases and related problems and to coordinate efforts undertaken in European countries for further development in this field.
In reality, it will be a hybrid meeting that will allow people to join the in-person conference in Vienna or to participate virtually.
Isico has already been present at past events and will participate as well in this upcoming edition with Prof Stefano Negrini and a Poster presentation titled "A Matched Case-Control Study of the Free Pelvis vs the classical Very-Rigid Sforzesco Brace in 436 High Degree AIS not previously braced".

For more about the event or registration please visit https://www.eurospinemeeting.org

EDISC: Dr. Zaina and Dr. Donzelli among the teachers

Two of the Isico specialists, Dr Sabrina Donzelli and Dr Fabio Zaina, physiatrists, will be engaged as teachers in the sixth module "Spinal deformities - Scoliosis during growth & other deformities across the life course" for EUROSPINE Diploma in Interprofessional Spine Care, the new and innovative continuing education programme of EUROSPINE. Dr Zaina will act as well as the coordinator for this module.

The EDISC programme is built sequentially over a period of three years starting with module 1 and ending with module 7, all the modules are delivered online.

After each completed module, continuous medical education (CME) credits and certificates are awarded.

For more info visit Eurospine website.

Isico Pills: a video about

Isico has recently launched a new video format designed for expert professionals, namely, doctors and therapists.

Watch the short video about Sport and scoliosis presented by our physiatrist, Dr Carmelo Pulici, available with English subtitles and share it with #isicopills on social networks.

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Chinese version of the ISYQOL

The Italian Spine Youth Quality of Life (ISYQOL) questionnaire is used to evaluate health-related quality of life in adolescents with Idiopathic Scoliosis.

The study Reliability and validity of simplified Chinese version of the Italian spine youth quality of life questionnaire in adolescents with idiopathic scoliosis aimed to undertake the process of cultural adaptation of the ISYQOL questionnaire into Simplified Chinese, the contemporary Chinese language primarily used in mainland China, Singapore, and Malaysia.
The culturally adapted Chinese version of the ISYQOL showed good reliability, high internal consistency, and satisfactory concurrent validity.

This instrument is therefore useful as a clinical evaluation tool for Chinese scoliosis patients.

Ilaria's story

My name is Ilaria, and I have spent the past 6 years wearing a scoliosis brace.

At last, on 28/6/2021, after countless sacrifices, many, many moments when it felt like everything was against me, and others when things seemed to be going better, I finally came to the end of my "journey" with ISICO.

Who decides that surgery is needed?

In case of idiopathic scoliosis without any other cause surgery must be the patient's choice, taken together with the doctor and the patient's family.
Given its risks and possible complications, surgery is not a decision that can be imposed on a patient.
What doctors must do, is make sure patients and their families are given all the correct information about their condition (based on scientific evidence and not just on their personal opinions) and then the right tools, so as to ensure that they are treated as effectively as possible.
It is important to remember that surgery is a definitive choice, and once it is undertaken, there is no going back.

Long-term follow-up of untreated Scheuermann's kyphosis
Enrique Garrido, Simon B Roberts, Andrew Duckworth, Joseph Fournier
Spine Deform. 2021 Jul 1, PMID: 34212306 DOI: 10.1007/s43390-021-00354-y

October 6-8 | EUROSPINE Annual Meeting | Vienna, Austria
October 16 | SRS Webinar for Professionals | Global Outreach and Scoliosis Surgery
October 20 | Launch of World Evidence-Based Healthcare Day 2021: the role of evidence in an infodemic | Cochrane