Skoliose-Info-Forum

bzebra, I am a bit confused here first of all, you appear a bit irritated and i don't know why, or am i just oversensitive? your experience and outcome are without doubt fantastic, if you would have lived in the UK or the USA you would have been operated on, no doubt. I was trying to work out how so...

appreciate the fact that no studies have been published, however doesn't that leave you with the problem that you recommend a certain treatment, (and you recommend rahmouni a lot) which is very involved and physically and emotionally very difficult to cope with potentially, without knowing whether "...

the central unanswered question remains; what is known of the postbrace/ longterm outcomes of young people who had a rahmouni brace fitted. Did they go back to their pre-treatment levels, (as the literature on hardbracing suggest) or did they stay at their corrected levels? Or somewhere in between? ...

i knew you would be quick with your reply, you always are. what i meaned is this; the list of achieved initial correction by rahmouni is indeed very impressive. However, it isn't this initial correction anybody should be interested in, it is whether this actually achieves a change in the natural his...

Dear All Rahmouni results with regards to correction in brace look very good. However, the "perceived wisdom" (or published evidence) is that with hardbraces, the curve tends to go back to the point where it was before bracing started. Is there anything known about how patients do after they finishe...

My daughter, a talented ballet dancer as it happens, has been diagnosed last year with an intially 24 degree and later (sept 04) 29 degree T 12 scoliosis. Since january she is wearing a custommade (from plastercast) TSLO (approx 20-22 hrs/day) brace which has brought the curve back to 21 degree (in ...