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Indications for conservative management of scoliosis (guidelines)

SOSORT guideline committee email, Hans-Rudolf Weiss1* email, Stefano Negrini2* email, Manuel Rigo3 email, Tomasz Kotwicki4 email, Martha C Hawes5* email, Theodoros B Grivas6 email, Toru Maruyama7 email and Franz Landauer8 email

Asklepios Katharina Schroth Spinal Deformities Rehabilitation Centre, Bad Sobernheim, Germany

ISICO (Italian Scientific Spine Institute), Milan, Italy

Instituto Èlena Salvá, Barcelona, Spain

University of Medical Sciences, Poznan, Poland

University of Arizona, Tucson AZ 85721, USA

Orthopaedic Department "Thriasion" General Hospital, Magula, Athens, Greece

Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Teikyo University School of Medicine, 2-11-1 Kaga, Itabashi-ku, Tokyo 173-8605, Japan

Landesklinik für Orthopädie, Müllner Hauptstr. 48, A-5020 Salzburg, Austria

author email corresponding author email* Contributed equally

Scoliosis 2006, 1:5doi:10.1186/1748-7161-1-5

Published: 8 May 2006

Abstract

This guideline has been discussed by the SOSORT guideline committee prior to the SOSORT consensus meeting in Milan, January 2005 and published in its first version on the SOSORT homepage: http://www.sosort.org/meetings.php webcite. After the meeting it again has been discussed by the members of the SOSORT guideline committee to establish the final 2005 version submitted to Scoliosis, the official Journal of the society, in December 2005.


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