Background The International Scientific Society on Scoliosis Orthopaedic and Rehabilitation Treatment (SOSORT) produced its first guidelines in 2005 and renewed them in 2011. Recently published high-quality clinical trials on the effect of conservative treatment approaches (braces and exercises) for idiopathic scoliosis prompted us to update the last guidelines' version. The objective was to al...

Background: The Early-Onset Scoliosis Self-Report Questionnaire (EOSQ-SELF) is a novel self-report instrument to evaluate the health-related quality of life (HRQoL) early onset scoliosis (EOS) patients, as complementary HRQoL assessment tool for proxy-repot 24-item (EOSQ-24). This study aimed translate and adapt EOSQ-SELF into Chinese version its reliability validity in EOS patients.

OBJECT Currently, few studies regarding morbidity and mortality associated with operative treatment of spinal disorders in children are available to guide the surgeon. This study provides more detailed morbidity and mortality data with an analysis of 23,918 pediatric cases reported in the multicenter, multisurgeon Scoliosis Research Society morbidity and mortality database. METHODS The Scolio...

Background Improvement of quality of life is the most important reason for treating AIS, yet research on this topic is very limited with less than 2% of research on scoliosis including a QoL measurement [1]. The BrQ is a scoliosis quality of life survey that has been shown to be reliable, valid, and responsive to change in adolescents with AIS who are treated conservatively with bracing [2]. Al...

With the start of 2016, we at the journal would like to wish all our readers, reviewers and Editorial Board members a most happy and prosperous new year. Ushering in this year, the journal has made some considerable changes. For one, the journal has been renamed Scoliosis and Spinal Disorders. We feel that with the ever-changing landscape of spinal conditions as well as health-care utilization ...

Dystrophic scoliosis in neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF-1) is difficult to treat. The purpose of this study was to review the clinical and radiological outcome of surgical treatment of dystrophic spinal curves in NF-1, for analyzing its efficacy, safety, and possible complications.This retrospective study consisted of 26 NF-1 patients with spinal deformities treated between 2003 and 2012 in our de...

Design/methods The data set was composed of 731 adult patients (578 females and 153 males) with idiopathic scoliosis and a mean age of 33 years (range 18-64 years, SD 14.68) who were treated with a four-week intensive course of scoliosis-specific physiotherapy (the ScolioGold method) between 2006 and 2013. All patients were asked to rate their QoL on their first day of treatment, at the end of ...