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SpineCor vs rigid (Boston) Scoliosis Brace

An interesting study comparing how well SpineCor performed against the usual rigid braces.

According to this study 43 girls “diagnosed with progressive scoliotic deformity with Cobb’s angle between 20° and 30°, apical vertebra below T5, age between 10 and 14, and Risser sign ≤2. The subjects should have good spinal flexibility and did not receive any other spinal treatment before. ...randomly assigned to undergo the intervention of SpineCor (S group = 22 subjects) or rigid spinal orthosis (R group = 21 subjects) from a scoliosis clinic. All the subjects were requested to wear the orthosis 23 hours a day and the rest hour is for bathing and doing physical exercises.”

A rather surprising conclusion to me was:

“In the current study, SpineCor showed a significantly lower treatment efficacy than the rigid spinal orthosis in the control of curve progression for a period of 45 months of observation. In the patient’s feedback survey, the SpinCor group had significantly more problems in toileting whereas the rigid spinal orthosis group had significantly more difficulties in donning and doffing of the orthoses.

The current study could not demonstrate that the acceptance of patients with adolscent idiopathic scoliosis to the SpineCor is superior to the rigid spinal orthosis (Boston Brace).”

Author's Note:  Less than 10% of school age children are able to wear the Boston brace the prescribed 23 hours a day.