Nighttime Bracing or Exercise in Moderate-Grade Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis: A Randomized Clinical Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Moderate-grade adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS) may be treated with full-time bracing. For patients who reject full-time bracing, the effects of alternative, conservative interventions are unknown.

Objective

To determine whether self-mediated physical activity combined with either nighttime bracing (NB) or scoliosis-specific exercise (SSE) is superior to a control of physical activity alone (PA) in preventing Cobb angle progression in moderate-grade AIS.

Design, setting, and participants

The Conservative Treatment for Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis (CONTRAIS) randomized clinical trial was conducted from January 10, 2013, through October 23, 2018, in 6 public hospitals across Sweden. Male and female children and adolescents aged 9 to 17 years with an A

SUBMITTER: Charalampidis A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10825714 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature