SOSORT consensus paper: school screening for scoliosis. Where are we today?

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SOSORT consensus paper: school screening for scoliosis. Where are we today?

Theodoros B Grivas¹ , Marian H Wade² , Stefano Negrini³ , Joseph P O'Brien⁴ , Toru Maruyama⁵ , Martha C Hawes⁶ , Manuel Rigo⁷ , Hans Rudolf Weiss⁸ , Tomasz Kotwicki⁹ , Elias S Vasiliadis¹ , Lior Neuhaus Sulam¹⁰ and Tamar Neuhous¹¹

¹Orthopaedic Department, "Thriasio" General Hospital, G. Gennimata Av. 19600, Magoula, Attica, Greece

²PT Practice, New York, USA

³ISICO (Italian Scientific Spine Institute), Milan, Italy

⁴President & CEO, National Scoliosis Foundation (NSF), Boston, USA

⁵Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Saitama MedicalCenter, Saitama Medical University, 1981 Kamodatsujido, Kawagoe, Saitama 350-8550, Japan

⁶University of Arizona, Tucson AZ 85721, USA

⁷Instituto Èlena Salvá, Barcelona, Spain

⁸Asklepios Katharina Schroth Spinal Deformities Rehabilitation Centre, Bad Sobernheim, Germany

⁹University of Medical Sciences, Poznan, Poland

¹⁰Bpt physiotherapist specialist in treatment of spinal deformities, Moshe Dayan st. 18 Modiin, 71700, Israel

¹¹pt physiotherapist specialist in treatment of spinal deformities, Moshe Dayan st. 18 Modiin, 71700, Israel

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Scoliosis 2007, 2:17doi:10.1186/1748-7161-2-17


Published:	26 November 2007

Abstract

This report is the SOSORT Consensus Paper on School Screening for Scoliosis discussed at the 4^thInternational Conference on Conservative Management of Spinal Deformities, presented by SOSORT, on May 2007. The objectives were numerous, 1) the inclusion of the existing information on the issue, 2) the analysis and discussion of the responses by the meeting attendees to the twenty six questions of the questionnaire, 3) the impact of screening on frequency of surgical treatment and of its discontinuation, 4) the reasons why these programs must be continued, 5) the evolving aim of School Screening for Scoliosis and 6) recommendations for improvement of the procedure.