Originally posted by Pooka1
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Did you read the study? It appears that 73 AIS kids were treated at that clinic from 1994 to 2009. Of the 73, 48 met the inclusion criteria for the study. No clinic with one orthotist is going to be treating thousands over that time period. Why do you automatically assume dishonesty? They left double curve cases out of the included cases which makes the results better, but even with treating just the single curves, it is pretty impressive. I've been told by at least 2 orthotists that said something to the effect of, "give me just those single curve and low riser score kids and we can come close to those results too". The orthotists currently are not only considering it possible but expecting to have dramatic curve reductions in most of these kind of "easier" cases. The current Cheneau derivative braces are better now than they were in the 1994 to 2009 timeframe.
I would be willing to bet that most if not all AIS is late diagnosed EOS. Our daughter's shoulders and hips were and are perfectly level. She would have probably made it to AIS without being diagnosed if our son's more obvious scoliosis did not clue us in. There is not evidence that AIS ever gets better when untreated, no matter when it started....and no one knows when an AIS case started.
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