Originally posted by flerc
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1) They should to advertise parents about the discomfort and probably traumatic situation that brace could provoke.
2) They should to advertise parents, that seems to be contradictory or not so much convincing studies about the high or low effectiveness of braces to avoid surgery.. and at least many of them not clearly says if they were used in the right way or not.. something that seems to not be clear what means for all.
3) They should to say parents that for everyone with a minimal rational mind and knowledge about physics laws and a basic knowledge about what scoliosis is, braces seems to be something so much important in an effective non surgical treatment trying to avoid surgery, if they are used under the right conditions.
4) They should to say parents that for everyone with a minimal rational mind and knowledge about physics laws and a basic knowledge about what scoliosis is, that the right conditions under which braces should be used are high compliance and reduction in brace and the best should to be combining it with other methods.
5) They should to advertise parents that surgeons seems to not include those conditions in the protocol and they are not giving any logic reason for that, except perhaps, what they may conclude assuming as a fact what they could have read in some of that studies, so is logic to suppose that the best would be to be sure that those conditions will be satisfied before beginning to use it.
6) They should to explain parents how they can have a good idea about that by themselves, if they measure the flexibility, that is, the lenght difference between being stand up and lying down.
7) They should to say parents about non surgical methods to gain flexibility if it is not enough.
8) They should to advertise parents that are not evidence of something good until end of life with fusion.
9) They should to advertise parents that there are absolute guarantees of bad and irreversible effects with fusion (it seems to not be any interest in reversing that fact).
10) And then, they should to leave parents to decide what could be the best for their sons, instead of eliminating options for them.
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