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

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

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 4th International 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.


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