Originally Posted by MaggieVictoria

I would like to write based on my first hand experience and the results we got with my daughter. My daughter started with a small curve of the t-spine about 10 degrees when she was 8. I was told by the ortho. not to worry about it and it wouldnt progress. When she was 12, i noticed a rib hump, and i saw that she was very short in the trunk Since I have had 3 surgeries, very poor outcomes long term, I as well as she was very concerned. Her Ped. had an xray done and sure enough, she had progressed

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Originally Posted by DrStitzel

"Scoliosis Treatment needs to be safe, effective, targeted, and practical for the "everyday" life of today's teenagers"

Scoliosis treatment needs to be re-invented.

Genetic testing for idiopathic scoliosis (Scoliscore) is a dramatic breakthrough in prognostic testing for idiopathic scoliosis and can now accurately identify the children with scoliosis whom are most genetically pre-disposed to developing a severe scoliosis spine. This is spell the

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Originally Posted by DrStitzel

The history of scoliosis treatment is well documented over the past almost 500 years (1st metal brace was created in 1575) and dates back to the early writings of the Hippocrates himself (The Father of Medicine). For hundreds of years, if not thousands, scoliosis patients have been immobilized in various types and applications of scoliosis brace treatment without success, and the current clinical data appears the orthopedic community isn’t any closer to scoliosis brace treatment success even today.

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Originally Posted by DrStitzel

“Idiopathic scoliosis” is term that has been present in recorded human history for almost 3,500 years, but the mystery of its “unknown cause” is slowly being discovered. As many experts have suspected for decades, breakthroughs in scoliosis genetic testing (Scoliscore) and the scoliosis blood test have uncovered sequences of genetic code that leave an individual “genetically pre-disposed” to the development of severe idiopathic scoliosis. However, since the condition doesn’t appear until adolescence

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Originally Posted by DrStitzel

I co-founded a non-profit organization almost 10 years ago, because I don't believe a person's lifetime should be or has to be defined by scoliosis. The impact of the physical deformity, self esteem related conditions (eating disorders, self mutilation, suicide attempts), and the psychological stress of hopeless shapes the patients life into the disease itself, and has a far greater impact on the patient than just the organic health consequences of the disease.

Scoliosis brace treatment

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