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Scoliosis Spinecor Brace
Providers
 
Welcome to Scoliosis SpineCor
Brace, we are the web's
premier provider for SpineCor Brace (the First and Only
Dynamic Corrective Brace For Idiopathic Scoliosis.) Our
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SpineCor
Treatment Procedure
1st Visit: Brace
Fitting
In the 1st visit, some
evaluations are required in order to fit the SpineCor
brace.
To help to perform these
evaluations, some anatomical points can be mark on your back
with a make-up pencil, which will be erased at the end of the
visit.
For all
the evaluations, you will be asked to place your feet in a
foot template to avoid any influence of an eventual change of
your position on the evaluations.
Then, the following
evaluations will be performed:
1st. Clinical Evaluation: to evaluate
your growth pattern and any postural abnormalities.
2nd. Radiological Evaluation: a
radiological study is needed to evaluate the type of curve and
its potential of progression. The x-rays required for this
study are the following:
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Frontal x-ray
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Lateral x-ray
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Prone x-ray
(optional)
Note: All x-rays used for
evaluation should be less than one month old in order to have
accurate information to evaluate the scoliosis curve. If
x-rays are older than one month the films should be repeated
on the day of the evaluation.
The data resulting from the
clinical and radiological exams are entered in the SpineCor
Assistant Software, which will provide information to fit the
brace correctly.
Once the brace is fitted,
it is necessary to evaluate the effectiveness of the brace
fitting performing the following exams:
1st. Clinical Evaluation in Brace
2nd. Radiological Evaluation in Brace: 1
new frontal x-ray in brace is required to confirm the result.
(N.B. This
is to confirm a positive action of the brace and does not
indicate the maximum correction, unlike rigid braces the
SpineCor? brace provides slow progressive
changes.)
At the end of the
visit, all patients/parents will be shown how to perform their
specific Corrective Movement and shown how to correctly fit
the brace, maintaining an optimal corrective movement
position, and how to take it off. Patients/parents
should demonstrate by fitting the brace independently
2 to 3 times that they fully understand the correct
fitting procedure. Each patient is provided with a
Patient Manual with the instructions to fit the brace
correctly and indications for its correct
maintenance.
SpineCor Treatment
Overview
SpineCor treatment was developed in the
early 1990s and utilises a Dynamic Corrective Brace (DCB),
together with a completely new treatment approach requiring
clinical assistant diagnostic software (SAS) to allow accurate
fitting and treatment follow up.
Following 12 years of
clinical research and
trials, SpineCor is now rapidly
being made available to patients around the world.
The initial excellent clinical results
produced by the research centre at Ste Justine Hospital and
the University of Montrea, Canada, have since been replicated
by more than 80 other treatment centres around the
world. SpineCor has shown to be effective in 89% of
cases (either by stablisation or improvement in (Cobb) angle
of the curve.
SpineCor's unique
treatment approach offers improvement over traditional braces,
which are essentially static or allow minimal movement, due to
its true totally dynamic action. Fundamental research by independent
research groups now indicates that a significant dynamic
action is required on the spine (vertebral growth plates) to
alter the abnormal growth progressing the deformity in
scoliosis patients.
The SpineCor
treatment approach is completely different to that of
traditional braces that use 3-point pressure and distraction;
it is the first and only true dynamic bracing system for
idiopathic scoliosis. SpineCor's unique approach to
treatment by global postural re-education has been shown to
give progressive correction over time which, unlike any
previous brace treatment, is extremely stable post brace
weaning.
Clinical experience
to date also shows better compliance and cosmetic
results.
SpineCor?:
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Allows patients four
hours per day out of brace
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Allows total freedom of
movement
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Offers better cosmesis
under clothing, and
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Is cooler to
wear.
With all of these
benefits, it is not difficult to see why compliance might be
better than with bulky, rigid braces that severely restrict
movement and must be worn 23 hours per day.
Although to date no
specific study has been undertaken to quantify cosmetic
improvement, subjectively, some striking improvements have
been observed clinically. Additionally, some very
positive postural changes have been noted in cases where there
has been no change in Cobb angle.
Summary
SpineCor?
offers:
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A treatment approach based on
the latest understanding of the cause and progression
factors of Idiopathic scoliosis.
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A much more acceptable
treatment to patients, being cooler to wear, less
restrictive, more easily concealed under clothing and 4
hours of out of brace time per day.
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No side
effects. Rigid braces cause muscle atrophy and can be
harmful to normal development in a growing child.
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Excellent treatment results,
particularly when treatment is started early.
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Excellent stability of
treatment results post bracing.
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Neuromuscular integration for
maintenance of improved posture.
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Potential to reduce incidence
of surgical intervention.
Conclusion
SpineCor is a highly
effective for the early treatment of idiopathic
scoliosis as demonstrated in the
case study and also offers significant benefits to patients
who present late. The real challenge is, therefore, to
increase awareness of the absolute importance of early
diagnosis and, that a viable treatment for early intervention
is now available. Clearly it is easier to prevent
progression of a small curve than to reverse the deformity in
a large curve. Timing is of absolute importance - the
later treatment is started the lesser the possibility there is
to change the curve, as the child's growth runs out so does
the possibility to make any change.
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