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SOSORT 2022: the AWARD winners and a fourth ISICO President
This year's SOSORT meeting, held
in San Sebastian, Spain in the wake of two editions forced online by the pandemic, was a double success for ISICO, which had two
studies shortlisted for the SOSORT Award.
One of them, Prediction of Future Curve Angle using Prior Visit Information in Previously Untreated Idiopathic Scoliosis: Natural History in Patients under 26
Years Old with Prior Radiograph, conducted in collaboration with the University of Alberta in Canada, came first, making this the fourth consecutive year
that ISICO has taken home the prestigious award. But this was not the only high point. Our Dr Sabrina Donzelli, physiatrist, was named as the
next President of the International Society.
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SOSORT 2022: Sabrina Donzelli's
impressions
We asked physiatrist Dr Sabrina Donzelli, one of our doctors at ISICO, to tell us about the highlights and
significance of SOSORT, the international conference held at the start of May in San Sabastian.
We knew that the event would be an important occasion for the specialists in attendance, as they had not been able to meet in person for two years. Little did
we imagine, though, when we approached Dr Donzelli, that we were asking the very person who, in the course of the event, would be named as the
next President of SOSORT...
(Pictured on the left, Sabrina Donzelli, together with organiser (SOSORT 2022 local host) Garikoitz Aristegui, and Judith
Sanchez Raya, co-Chair of the SOSORT 2022 Scientific Committee)
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Isico's research wins the SOSORT
Award
For the fourth consecutive year, Isico has obtained the most prestigious award for those involved in rehabilitative
treatment of the spine, winning the SOSORT Award with the study Prediction of Future Curve Angle using Prior Visit Information in Previously Untreated
Idiopathic Scoliosis: Natural History in Patients under 26 Years Old with Prior Radiographs.
The Isico authors are Prof. Stefano Negrini (in the photo), together with Dr Giulia Rebagliati, Dr Fabio Zaina, Dr Sabrina Donzelli and
Dr Alberto Negrini...
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Waeel
Abdalla shares
his experience
In each number of our newsletter, we present the experiences on how scoliosis is treated
worldwide through an interview with one of our Online Master course participants. They are fellow doctors, physiotherapists, and orthopaedic technicians
coming from all over the world.
This month's interview, is with dr. Waeel Abdalla, Scoliosis Clinician from
Egypt.
"I
believe that in Scoliosis we all need more and more of non-stop information and knowledge..."
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Dress green with us in June!
As every year, Isico dresses in green throughout June
with a particular initiative.
During the four weeks of the month, we will release dedicated posts on our social networks where each time we will share something different: a
video, a testimony or an image to talk about scoliosis and how it is possible to live your daily life and overcome the difficulties of a demanding
therapy.
Isico will be also part of an initiative organised by Tratando Escoliose/Brazil...
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After
two years Seas lands
again
in the USA
Our courses dedicated to the approach to scoliosis with specific exercises (SEAS) finally
return, after two years from the beginning of the pandemic, back to the United States.
A return not only for SEAS but also for our
physiotherapist Alessandra Negrini, several times in the past in the United States, who will hold the course in Denver from 3 to 5
June.
Meanwhile, during the month of May, our physiotherapy director Michele Romano flew to Zagreb in Croatia and to Cairo in Egypt, where he
held Seas I courses for about twenty participants in each location.
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ISSLS 2022: Fabio Zaina commenting
Finished SOSORT Meeting, ISICO physiatrist Fabio Zaina headed to Boston where the 48th ISSLS
Annual Meeting, another international event that, following the hiatus due to the pandemic, could finally be staged in the normal way again.
Dr Zaina represented ISICO by giving a presentation which was one of the 8 selected for presentation to the
general assembly at the ISSLS, the fourth in order of importance (in fact, the reports have been presented in order of choice of the scientific
committee). Further to this great achievement, Dr Zaina also presented a poster.
We asked him three questions, to get his brief
take on the event...
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2° Brazilian Scoliosis Congress
After the launch in 2021 of the 1st online Brazilian Scoliosis Congress, also this year the 2nd Brazilian
Scoliosis Congress will be held on June 24, 25 and 26.
The event emerged as an initiative of the Fundação Brasileira de Scoliosis
and is aimed at professionals who work in the treatment of patients with scoliosis, academics, patients and family members.
"We try to provide quality information - comments Isis Navarro, physiotherapist cooperating with the organizer - in this way, we want to promote
awareness of scoliosis for patients, families, students and professionals".
Our experts were asked to speak again this year on June 24, the
opening day of the congress.
Dr Michele Romano, Physiotherapy Director of ISICO, will speak in the morning about "Screening At Home: The Real First Step To Detect Spinal
Misalignemet" and Prof Stefano Negrini, Scientific Director of ISICO, will provide a lecture on "Adolescent Idiopathic
Scoliosis" in the afternoon.
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Sforzesco course: starting with participants from 12 countries around the world!
It is a bit as if an appointment had been made from all over the world for the launch of the Sforzesco online course,
which started last May 18 with the first module, given that there are 13 countries from which the various participants are coming. From
Brazil to Cambodia, from Singapore to Malaysia and Indonesia passing through Morocco, Syria, Turkey, Japan, United States, Italy, Latvia and
Bosnia-Herzegovina: a world of multi-layered experiences...
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Isico Pills: a video about scoliosis and
pregnancy
Isico offers on the YouTube Channel a video format designed for expert professionals, namely, doctors and therapists.
Watch the short video about Scoliosis and Pregnancy by our physiatrist, Dr Giulia Rebagliati, available
with English subtitles and share it with #isicopills on social media.
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Screening: why prevention matters
It is often said, in reference to spinal disorders like scoliosis, that prevention is just as important as
treatment.
Before we go any further, let's get a few things clear, starting with the definitions of screening and scoliosis.
Screening is an activity involving the use of rapid tests, examinations or other procedures, and its purpose is to detect the possible presence of a
disease or defect that the patient didn't know they had.
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Skiing, playing a musical instrument, dancing or even jumping in the air - is it possible when wearing a brace? Yes, it is;
the hundreds of patients who participated during the past 10 years in our Concorsetto, the national ISICO competition dedicated to brace
wearers, proved it.
The videos and images of these kids are the best encouragement for those who are preparing to follow a demanding therapy such as that for
scoliosis, and who are living the fear of not being able to practice a sport or play an instrument.
For
our monthly appointment on our Youtube channel find out how you can dance like our young patient
Silvia...
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When scoliosis is just posture?
Parents often get concerned when they see their children (or teenagers) slouching or sitting or walking badly, with one
shoulder higher than the other, neck drooping forward, and so on. And they start wondering whether it might be scoliosis.
In this regard, let's be quite clear on one
thing.
There is a world of difference between scoliosis and scoliotic posture. In scoliosis, there is a structural deformity of the spine that needs
a structured medical and rehabilitation treatment; with scoliotic posture, on the other hand, because it is a postural problem that can be attenuated
through good muscle strengthening, it can often be enough for the individual to start doing regular physical activity.
That said, spinal screening of youngsters
is always worth doing, just to make sure that a scoliotic posture is not masking a case of scoliosis proper.
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The hereditary Nature of Adolescent Spinal Deformities-A study of over 600,000
adolescents
YYair Zloof, Ran Ankory, Amit Elbaz Braun, Maya Braun, Shlomi Abuhasira, Naama Schwartz, Dotan
Yaari, Elon Glassberg, Amir Shlaifer
Spine, 2022 Apr. 21, PMID: 35472202,
DOI: 10.1097/BRS.0000000000004355
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