Scoliosis (curvature of the spine) affects three or four per thousand children and as many as seven out of ten older adults. While there is still controversy about the efficacy of back braces for ...

Scoliosis affects three or four per thousand children and seven out of 10 adults. Although there's controversy about the efficacy of back braces for children this is often considered a problem of ...

New research published in BioMed Central's open access journal Scoliosis demonstrates that a brace that contains a tiny heat sensor and is able to monitor how long it is worn, and that kids are ...

But there's no easy placebo for a back brace, and researchers figured that many parents wouldn't want to leave their child's treatment choice up to chance. This is a child's spine we're talking about.

We hope Bespoke, a new 3-D printed back brace, will make huge strides in fixing this problem. It’s more comfortable–and more fashionable–than any brace we’ve seen.

A figure skating teenager now has near-perfect posture after wearing a back brace 22 hours a day for three years following a scoliosis diagnosis. Olivia, from Nottinghamshire, was finally told she ...

News Scoliosis could be treated in future with a lightweight 3D-printed back brace that senses how effectively it fits patients, a UK-US team of researchers claim. Scoliosis is a form of spine ...

Now, when fearful patients, the majority 12-year-old girls, ask what it's like wearing a brace, the doctor can speak from experience. "It's hot and it gets in your way," he said.

She didn't know anyone else with scoliosis, so her family got her doll a brace, too. "The only one who has scoliosis is my doll," Cecilia said.