Spine Cor Brace effectiveness for both adolescent and adult scoliosis patients

Scoliosis is a challenging condition to manage during childhood because conventional treatments are so limited but adults find that their treatment options are even fewer. The greatest challenge to treating scoliosis occurs while the spine is still growing. Often times parents are told to do nothing unless their child’s curvatures become severe. Then, suddenly their child is a candidate for a surgery which fuses the spine and uses metal pins and bars to set it in the right position. Providing treatment early on, when the scoliosis curvatures are most correctable, is the key to success. That is why new research findings in scoliosis treatment seem to be leaning toward beginning scoliosis treatment anytime a curvature reaches 20 degrees or more.

Adults are generally not considered candidates for surgery because adult scoliosis know is a more slowly progressive condition. Over the years as the spine continues to curve out of shape and may push on other internal organs and displace them. This can cause a lot of different symptoms. One of the most common symptoms is chronic pain. This can turn into a real disability if the condition is left untreated. Along with pain, patients can experience cosmetic problems such as uneven shoulders and waist, as well as respiratory problems due to pressure on the lungs.

Before the development of the Spine Cor Brace, there was no effective way to treat pain from scoliosis in adults with bracing. Hard shell braces are not very effective in adults and have limited application I children. It is important to note that while the Spine Cor Brace treatment was originally created to treat idiopathic scoliosis in children, successful adult applications have been discovered.

Intially, SpineCor was developed only for adolescent scoliosis treatment, but our doctors helped pioneer the use of the flexible, dynamic brace to allow for it to now be used to treat adults with scoliosis.

In most cases, the brace is worn during the day only for a period of several weeks while the body adjusts to the demands of wearing a brace. After several weeks pass, the time in the brace will increase to a maximum of twenty hours per day. This type of a brace is constructed from elastic bands which allow the doctor to adjust the device to suit a particular patient.

In adult patients, the brace is set up to re-train the spine to move back into proper position. This is done via a constant application of rehabilitative, small amount of tension between the static components of the brace and the connected flexible bands. These bands provide corrective forces to the spine by restraining movements that worsen the curvatures and allowing freedom of movement for the patient in the direction of correction.

Because the brace allows for a full range of motion, the patient can also participate in physical therapy exercises designed to strengthen spinal muscles and to help the patient’s body reposition the spine. This can lead to alleviations of chronic pain and to an improvement in the cosmetic appearance of the spine itself. This flexible dynamic brace has shown effectiveness at all degrees of curvature and at all ages.