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Every year, when the fierce winter weather arrives, Benedikt, a simple man and the main character of the Icelandic Christmas Carol titled
"The Good Shepherd", has his mission for 27 years now to salvage the forgotten sheep of other people stranded in the Icelandic highlands,
accompanied by his dog and his ram.
Because "what was his life, the life of men on earth, if not an imperfect service which is nevertheless supported by expectation,
by hope?".
In a year in which we had to live once again with bright and dark moments, doubts and
expectations, in which the effort of one was that of many, we want to wish you the coming year 2022 full of hope and life with this tale.
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The Risser sign, growth and scoliosis: let's clear a few
things up
When patients come for medical consultations or physiotherapy sessions, numerous measurements get taken and recorded, often
without less expert eyes even noticing.
Other measurements, on the other hand, are
quickly seized upon, both by parents and youngsters. Take height for example.
The sliding piece barely has time to touch the patient's head before the patient, hopeful, blurts out: "Have I grown? Can I leave off my brace
now?"...
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Anna Kusturova 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 Anna Kusturova, orthopedist-traumatologist, from Chisinau, Moldova.
"Spine diseases are very common in my country. Many patients don't pay attention to
existing problems and usually come to the doctor when complications appear..."
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Breaking news: SEAS fala portugu�s
In 2022 SEAS also speaks Portuguese, meaning that from January, in collaboration with Clinica Linear Saudade e
Movimento, the SEAS Level 1 and Level 2 courses will be held in different locations in Brazil. A fantastic opportunity for Brazilian
professionals to learn or to further improve the evidence-based approach to scoliosis treatment with exercises. The local organizer in Brazil will be Isis
Navarro, physiotherapist certified SEAS for both levels during the courses given in Rio de Janeiro by Michele Romano, director of
physiotherapy in ISICO. For these new training moments Michele Romano will be connected live online to deal with the theoretical part of the course,
starting from introducing the basic principles of the SEAS method, assisted on site by the Brazilian colleague and together they will perform the practical
sessions.
There are seven appointments already set from January to October.
For more information on the local organizer and the SEAS approach please visit the Clinica Linear website or directly on the English site of
ISICO https://en.isico.it/seas-in-the-world/
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Seas: sold-out in Russia!
During the past year, our international courses dedicated to the exercise approach to Scoliosis treatment - SEAS gradually
resumed even in presence.
During the past weeks, Michele Romano, director of physiotherapy at Isico, was able to travel to Russia to give
four courses in Moscow and one in Anapa, on the Black Sea, 3 of SEAS Level 1 and two of SEAS Level 2.
Over one hundred participants were enthusiastic about the teaching, divided into 67 for
Level 1 and 40 for Level 2, finally allowed to experience the training in person.
Mid-January we will give the kick-off for our news online courses in Brazil and a couple of courses again in Russia
from 24 to 29 January, while in February and March it will be the turn of two learning opportunities in Turkey and
Hungary.
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A predictive model of scoliosis: the research will be
published in 2022
During these months, Isico carried out the study funded by the SRS (Research Society on Scoliosis), aimed at
identifying a predictive model on the evolution of scoliotic curves in untreated patients, in collaboration with the University of Alberta, in Canada.
Collected the data, presented preliminarily in March by Prof. Stefano Negrini, scientific director of Isico, in a webinar during the Research Grant Outcome Symposium
organized by SRS, we moved to the writing phase of the study that will be published in 2022.
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World Master
Course: early bird extended!
While we are closing with satisfaction our World Master 2021 in
English and Chinese Edition, we are already preparing for the next one.
Early bird extended!
You can register at a reduced rate until the 5th of January to take part in the 2022 Isico World Master course.
If you'd like to have a taste of what the past participants tell about it please visit our world master's website
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Welcome guests at Isico
In mid-December we were happy to host two physiotherapists from Turkey, Meltem Ko� from Mugla and Yasemin
Akkubak from Konya, at our Milan office. Both graduated from Gazi University, they came to visit us for a few days to get to know more closely our daily
clinical and rehabilitation activity.
In the photo we see them taken in front of the entrance of our headquarter in Milan together with Michele Romano, director of physiotherapy in Isico.
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Isico
Pills
Isico has recently launched a new video
format designed for expert professionals, namely, doctors and therapists.
Watch the short video about Hyperkyphosis given by Dr Greta Jurenaite, physiatrist, available with English
subtitles and share it with #isicopills on social networks.
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Can a back bend again once the treatment
is finished?
In our experience, documented in data we have published, it is certainly not true to say that spines treated
for scoliosis, once the treatment is over, almost always go back to being as bent as they were before, if not more so.
If everything has been done
correctly, the result will generally be stable, at least in the medium term.
Any deterioration after the end of therapy can depend on various factors...
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The Italian Scoliosis Study Group selects the best published papers on conservative spine
treatment from the global scientific literature every year. Here is the abstract from one of these
papers.
Long-term follow-up of untreated Scheuermann's kyphosis
Enrique Garrido, Simon B Roberts, Andrew Duckworth, Joseph Fournier
Spine Deform. 2021 Nov PMID: 34212306
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