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ISICO evidence-based treatment decided in agreement with patient and
family:
the best solution
How effective is the treatment approach
adopted by Isico compared with a simplified protocol based on a single, standardised type of brace and a set number of brace-wearing hours?
According to our study A Pragmatic Benchmarking
Study of an Evidence-Based Personalised Approach in 1938 Adolescents with High-Risk Idiopathic Scoliosis, just published in Journal of Clinical Medicine
, the answer is hugely effective!
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A closer look at the data
The study just published focused on 1938 participants with AIS, Cobb angles of 11-45�, and Risser stage 0-2, who were studied until the end of growth.
Using
the inclusion criteria reported in existing RCTs on physiotherapeutic scoliosis-specific exercises (PSSE), plastic bracing (PB), and elastic bracing (EB), we
benchmarked 590, 687, and 884 members of our study population, respectively.
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Isico science corner video column
At Isico we give great importance to research, an
integral part of our clinical work.
Our newsletters always dedicate a space to the presentation and a comment when a new Isico study is
published.
From this issue on, we will go one step further
, enriching each presentation with the video commentary of the first author of the research paper. We are pleased that it is just our scientific director
Stefano Negrini, the first author of the article, launching the new Isico Science corner video column with a study of such great
importance.
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Seyma Nur �evik shares her
experience
In each number of our newsletter,
we present the experiences on how scoliosis is treated worldwide through an interview with one of our annual Online Master
course participants. They are fellow doctors, physiotherapists, and orthopaedic technicians coming from all over the world.
The interview this
month, is with
Seyma Nur �evik, a physiotherapist from Turkey.
"I think scoliosis rehabilitation is still lacking in
my country, there are places that do Schroth Bspts practices, but not many...".
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World Online Master
registrations open
for 2022!
Our international World Master for both the English and Chinese editions closed in November with the final conclusive lecture.
Prof. Stefano Negrini, our scientific director, said goodbye to all participants at the end of the last live lesson
wishing that several projects we have in the pipeline for next year will go through, so to meet again in some new learning context.
The good news for those who have not yet participated and would like to know more is that registrations for the 2022 edition starting in January, are open and
you can register at a reduced rate until mid of December. Visit the dedicated course website for more!
Are you curious or hesitant and want to understand how it works? The best testimony is that of those who have already participated: watch the video!
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Patient-friendly: Isico
booklets
A fairy tale to colour and watch for our little patients, a booklet with many useful answers for the elder ones in therapy for their scoliosis, or advice for those
who have just finished their treatment. Isico knows that scoliosis therapy is often a tiring and complicated path. Just to make this path lighter and easier we have
made a series of booklets available to patients.
The Fairytale
handbook, Do You Wear a Brace? Here is Isico's Advice and Life After Scoliosis Treatment
are available on our website in several languages, besides English, in Bulgarian, Spanish, Portuguese and Romanian.
Discover them all and download your copy.
Would you also like to have an edition in
your language? Well, do not hesitate and contact us for more information!
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ScolioRussia: Isico present
also at the third
edition
Our two specialists, Michele Romano, technical director of
Isico, and Alessandra Negrini, physiotherapist, participated in the online annual conference ScolioRussia held on November
24th-26th, to increase the effectiveness of treatment and the prevention of scoliosis.
Presentations were given by European and Russian speakers, all specialist working with posture disorders.
For Isico it is the third participation in the event
, with the now usual presence of Michele Romano (not new in Russia, since for years he is giving SEAS courses both in Moscow and in other places in the country)
in addition for the second time we had the honour that our physiotherapist Alessandra Negrini was added as a speaker.
Michele Romano gave a presentation on
"Home screening", whereas Negrini focused on "Adult Scoliosis".
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Isico Pills: a video about the sagittal
profile
Isico has recently launched a new video format designed for expert professionals, namely, doctors and therapists.
Watch the short video about Sagittal profile
presented by our PT Serena Quaggio, available with English subtitles and share it with #isicopills on social networks.
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Adults: can hyperkyphosis be
improved?
With the passing years, lots of adults start to realise, when they look at themselves in the mirror, that they are getting increasingly stooped. Some
people are unwilling to accept this situation and start wondering whether they can do anything to arrest this process.
The question is, can this condition
be improved or is it pointless even to try?
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Is it a
normal back perfectly straight?
It is probably as rare to have a perfectly straight spine and a perfectly symmetrical trunk as
it is to have scoliosis.
Because the fact is we all present some (more or less visible) physical
asymmetries.
Just think of the different parts of the body that you have two of. If we were to measure the precise length and size of your hands, feet, arms and legs, we would
almost certainly find they show some minor differences.
A physical asymmetry only really becomes a problem when it throws
the body off balance.
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