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Guidelines on "Standards of management of idiopathic scoliosis with corrective braces in everyday clinics and in clinical research": SOSORT Consensus 2008

Stefano Negrini1 email, Theodoros B Grivas2 email, Tomasz Kotwicki3 email, Manuel Rigo4 email, Fabio Zaina1 email and the international Society on Scoliosis Orthopaedic and Rehabilitation Treatment (SOSORT) email

ISICO (Italian Scientific Spine Institute), Via Bellarmino 13/1, 20122 Milan, Italy

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

Department of Paediatric Orthopaedics, University of Medical Sciences, Poznan, Poland

Istituto Èlena Salvà, Barcelona, Spain

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Scoliosis 2009, 4:2doi:10.1186/1748-7161-4-2

Published: 16 January 2009

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First draft of recommendations. First draft of recommendations.

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Pre-Meeting Questionnaire. Pre-Meeting Questionnaire.

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Meeting Questionnaire. Meeting Questionnaire.

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Standards of management of idiopathic scoliosis with corrective braces in everyday clinics and in clinical research. The SOSORT Criteria for bracing. Standards of management of idiopathic scoliosis with corrective braces in everyday clinics and in clinical research. The SOSORT Criteria for bracing.

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Questionnaire to verify the achievement of the SOSORT Criteria for bracing: "Standards of management of idiopathic scoliosis with corrective braces in everyday clinics and in clinical research". Questionnaire to verify the achievement of the SOSORT Criteria for bracing: "Standards of management of idiopathic scoliosis with corrective braces in everyday clinics and in clinical research". This is now openly proposed to the general community both for clinical everyday use and research on clinical efficacy of bracing.

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