Controversial Issue Session: Brace treatment in infantile scoliosis: benefits

Material and methods In 1965, Cotrel and Morel describing the EDF plaster jacket technique stated that “in young children, it should be feasible not only to prevent further progression but above all to use the child’s growth to regress structural vertebral and thoracic deformities”. Before the child start walking, we use a plaster shell in bending correction. After walking, an underarm plaster cast with a large anterior opening, and the modified Milwaukee brace with polyethylene bars and cervical collar without hyoid support is the only brace that can manage curves in the top part of the spine. It is also the only brace that can avoid a hypoplastic thorax.