Background Conservative treatment of idiopathic scoliosis is a difficult and complex therapeutic process, witch not always is finished successfully. It seems that manual therapy may be used as an element in the preparatory phase for active 3D specific exercises. A systematic review of the literature (which is rather poor) performed by Romano and Negrini show, that manual therapy is not support ...

Stress level due to existing body deformity as well as to the treatment with a corrective brace is one of factors influencing the quality of life of children with idiopathic scoliosis undergoing non-surgical management. The purpose of the study was to evaluate the stress level among children suffering from idiopathic scoliosis in relation to the method of treatment and the parameters of the def...

Introduction Rigid full-time braces are the most common non-surgical treatment for adolescents with moderate severity of scoliosis and further growth. The Scoliosis Research Society has established guidelines on which patients with adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS) should be treated with a brace. This study surveyed Canadian surgeons on their protocols for prescribing braces for adolescent ...

Background While many studies have been performed on the effects of exercise on Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis (AIS) little research has been done into the underlying muscle physiology. Studies have suggested a fibre type imbalance, however, the implications of this difference as reflected through fatiguability have not been studied. The slope of the median frequency of the surface electromyog...

Study Design Preliminary evaluation of new tool. Objective To ascertain whether the newly developed content-based image retrieval (CBIR) software can be used successfully to retrieve images of similar cases of adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS) from a database to help plan treatment without adhering to a classification scheme. Methods Sixty-two operated cases of AIS were entered into the new...

BACKGROUND Scoliotic curves do not necessarily stop progressing at skeletal maturity. The factors that influence curve behavior following bracing are not fully determined. Our objectives were to evaluate the loss of the scoliotic curve correction in a cohort of patients treated with bracing during adolescence and to compare the outcomes of 18 versus 23 h of bracing at a mean of 25 years post br...

Aim The aims of this study were to compare bone quality (speed-of-sound, SOS and z-scores) between female adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS) patients and controls using quantitative ultrasound examination, and further to analyze the relationship between bone strength and maturation, severity and type of scoliosis in AIS patients measured by the same technique along the long axis of the dista...

Introduction The SOSORT physiotherapy consensus (2005) demonstrated that scoliosis specialists were in agreement that several features in the rehabilitation of patients with idiopathic scoliosis can be regarded as standard. The purpose of this study was to call for a preliminary consensus regarding the feasibility of conducting a multicentre prospective study evaluating different physiotherapy ...

STUDY DESIGN Case controlled study. OBJECTIVE To explore the relative effects of body mass index (BMI) and the presence or absence of adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS) on bone mineral density (BMD) as evidenced by Z-scores in adolescents. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA Prior studies have identified adolescents with idiopathic scoliosis as having "osteoporosis" or "osteopenia," when only a s...

BACKGROUND Loss of trunk height caused by scoliosis has been previously assessed using different mathematical formulae. However, these are of differing algebraic construction and will give a range of values for the same size of scoliosis curve. As such, the following study attempted to determine the most valid published formulae for calculating height loss caused by idiopathic scoliosis based o...