No. The use of rigid or soft bracing for the treatment of mild or moderate scoliosis has been demonstrated to have little to no effect on the curvature itself and may even make the permanent body disfigurement worse than doing nothing at all. The image below clearly shows a dramatic increase in the rib hump development and body disfigurement while the patient is in the brace than out of the brace. 
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