No matter how sophisticated a back brace may be, it’s not going to correct scoliosis if a patient doesn’t wear it. And given the awkward, torture-contraption look of most braces available, kids and ...

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 ...

For decades, doctors have been recommending that children with scoliosis wear a back brace so that the sideways curve of the spine doesn't get worse. But there was scant evidence to prove back braces ...

DENVER (CBS4)- A doctor at the Rocky Mountain Hospital for Children, RMHC, has spent a week learning what life is like for his young patients who must wear a back brace. Dr. Jaren Riley, a pediatric ...

Back braces are popular wearable supports that reportedly ease pain and improve posture. A person may wear a back brace to prevent work-related injuries or to manage conditions such as scoliosis.

For many children with scoliosis, bracing is a crucial intervention that can avert the progression of spinal deformities. Pediatric orthopedic surgeon Joshua Speirs, MD, outlines how braces are ...

New technologies to straighten crooked spines while letting them grow may one day help children bypass those hated back braces. Scoliosis specialists are trying staples to force a curving spine to ...

It’s not fun to be a kid diagnosed with scoliosis, a severe back condition that normally sets in just before puberty. In the worst cases, they have to wear a plastic brace for four years, 23 hours a ...

Doctors regularly achieve miraculous feats, from removing brain tumors to fixing the curve in a teenager’s spine. Yet there’s only so much they can do to understand the illness you’re facing—and that ...

PHILADELPHIA — When Trevor Johnson was 11, his growing spine took a detour from the normal straight path. Instead of stacking neatly one atop the other, his vertebrae began to drift sideways into an S ...

U.S. HAVE SCOLIOSIS. THAT’S ACCORDING TO JOHNS HOPKINS MEDICINE, AND ONE LOCAL FAMILY HAS GONE VIRAL, SHARING THEIR DAUGHTER’S JOURNEY WITH THE DIAGNOSIS AND BUILDING A COMMUNITY THEY NEVER EXPECTED.

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. LONE TREE, Colo. – Dr. Jaren Riley knows his ...