
Originally Posted by
richardis

Originally Posted by
Pooka1
"There is no good evidence it allows growing kids to avoid surgery. There is a reason most surgeons don't use Spinecor. A very good reason.
For adults, there is evidence it helps some people with pain but the muscles atrophy in the brace. So when they stop wearing it that have weaker muscles and may collapse.
For adults there is no evidence it corrects or even halts progression. That is why it is sold for pain only to adults."
Pooka1, do you mean that muscle atrophies or muscles imbalances lead to bone deformities? That is a good observation. Are you claiming that are the imbalanced muslces forces that make scoliosis progress further into adulthood?
It has already crossed my mind, but I think the genes play a bigger role.
All braces including Spinecor take over for muscle by restricting movement. That results in atrophy and to the extent muscle strength can hold a curve (which may not be much), that is lost.
At first the Spinecor developers said no PT was necessary because it allowed so much movement (which may explain why it doesn't work to hold a curve). But they later changed that and said the patent should do PT also maybe to avoid the atrophy. It still doesn't work to avoid surgery.
Sharon, mother of identical twin girls with scoliosis
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