tlso brace

[Grace]

Iam 27 years old, and got scoliosis upper 22 degree and lower 32 degree. I wear tlso brace. Dokter said i should use 23 hours/dy but i can't so i use my brace for only when i got sleep about 8 hours.

Can my tlso brace still effective if i wear 8 hours/days????...

[LindaRacine]

Grace...

No brace will permanently reduce your curves because you are already skeletally mature. Wearing the brace is probably only making your muscles atrophy, and a good scoliosis specialist would certainly tell you to stop wearing it immediately.

--Linda

[SandyC]

Grace,
Why did your doctor tell you to wear a brace??? Please see a doctor that is qualified to work with adult scolosis patients. The tlso brace is doing more harm than good. You need to be keeping your back and abdomen muscles strong, not weakening them by non-use.

[Grace]

Dear friends,


But my curve is progress, when 26 years old my lower curve 30 degree and now my curve 32 degree. What should i do???

[LindaRacine]

Grace...

There's a 5 degree margin of error whenever curves are measured, so 2 degrees really isn't anything to worry about. If you feel you have to do something, you might try yoga or physical therapy, but bracing definitely won't help.

--Linda

[Grace]

Dear friends

thanks for your reply.

But when i check in http://curvemenders.homestead.com/AdultBracing.html, told that people who reached adult/mature could use brace too.

I little bit confuse...

[Alison]

Always be very careful what you read on the internet............I had a look at the website and I had alarm bells ringing in my head from the moment I saw it was a .com address

Alison

[KRIS ATKINSON]

Allison, what does a .com address mean? Is it a commercial whereas .org is an organization? Kris

[Alison]

Not really

I'm not very 'compter wordy' but I'll give it a go at explaining it, it's how we look at it for things such as university assigments and referencing

In the world of the internet, .com is the cheapest web site space to buy. Many .Com's are even free. What you have to be careful of is that 'anyone' out there could get some space.......doesn't necessarily mean that it's right. In terms of university referencing it is considered the 'least reputable' and have to be treated with much caution.

.Org come's next. These one's always cost, and cost more than a .com. I think there's certain criteria/rules you have to meet for one, but I'm not sure. .org's are considered to be more reputable for university referencing than .com. They are usually organisations, associations, charities etc

.edu, .gov are considered the most reputable and the best for research and reliability of information. For a .edu you have to an education institution of some kind and a .gov you have to be some kind of goverment organisation. They are considered of highest repute and you can use them as sources for papers etc and consider the research/information on them to be 'reputable' and of some weight/worth.

With the .org's/.com's there are some exceptions to the rule. I think what I'm trying to say is that whilst the internet's a fantastic resource, you need to be careful of what you read/find and not necessarily take it to be 'right'.

When I saw the website in question was a .com I had kinda 'caution' bells ringing in my head, for what I was going to read. The resources on their don't seem to be sustained, the references are a bit iffy and there's lot of 'big fancy words' on the website but I just have the gut feeling it's questionable and unsustainable generally as a whole


Alison

[KRIS ATKINSON]

Alison, very interesting! You must be a student in college? Thank you for the info. Kris

[Alison]

No prob, Aye I am a university/college student (guilty as charged lol) I'm a first year student registered Nurse.

We've got the referencing........what's reputable etc, what you should look at/not look at lecture drilled into us from day one and it's reinforced at regular occasions

Alison

[Grace]

Dear Friends,

How about ASCO treatment , .... It is true they can cure the people who is skeletally mature???

[mocity]

I had severe scoliosis as a child which included 2 S curves. I wore a brace 4th grade through 9th grade. I was told that you wear the brace until your bones aren't growing anymore which is normally 2 years after a female begins menstration. Typically the braces are worn by adolescents to prevent having to have the back surgery. I had some bad luck and my curves kept curving and I had the surgery. As bad as the surgery was it did not compare to having to wear that brace 23 hours a day as a young female. So, besides all that, why would you wear a brace now when you are matured. I think the only time a brace is worn is to cut down on pain... never to "fix" the problem. I don't think it is even possible once grown.

[SandyC]

Grace,
Once the bones of the body have matured, there is no changing the shape. Whether you brace, hang up side down, "crack" them, Accupuncture or herbs, once they stop growing that's it. As much as people want to avoid surgery, that is the only way to correct scoliosis. There are thousands of web sites and just as many con artists willing to sell you anything and take your money. The worst type of con is the medical. They pray on peoples hope and fears and take their money and leave them the same way and sometimes worst off than if the patient had just done nothing.

[marmyte]

As bad as the surgery was it did not compare to having to wear that brace 23 hours a day as a young female.

just to get slightly off topic here but i had to respond to this statement you made: i've been braced and had surgery, and i have to say YES surgery is painful, YES for me it's been worthwhile, but no way no how is it preferable to achieving correction through a brace! i agree that braces don't work once you're skeletally mature but if you are fortunate enough for one to do its job during adolescence then that's fantastic and the psychological "suffering" becomes irrelevant.

i don't like the way there's such a negative opinion of bracing, occasionally due to the perception of how they look. they're not meant to be attractive, they're meant to either help you get better or prevent you from getting drastically worse. in the grand scheme of things, a person is never wearing one for long and it's a TINY price to pay if the condition of a patient doesn't worsen and gets to avoid surgery.

i'm sorry it didn't "cure" you, it didn't do that for me either. but i completely disagree that it was a horrendous experience in comparison to surgery