Soft braces in the treatment of Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis (AIS) - Review of the literature and description of a new approach.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The use of soft braces to treat scoliosis has been described by Fischer as early as 1876. With the help of elastic straps, as the authors suggested, a corrective movement for individual curve patterns should be maintained in order to inhibit curve progression. Today this concept has been revived besides soft 3 point pressure systems. Some shortcomings have been revealed in literature in comparison with hard braces, however the concept of improving quality of life of a patient while under brace treatment should furtherly be considered as valuable. Purpose of this review is to gather the body of evidence existent for the use of soft braces and to present recent developments.

Method

A review of literature as available on Pub Med was performed using the key words 'sco

SUBMITTER: Weiss HR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3479417 | biostudies-literature | 2012 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature