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| SOSORT Award: Isico is back on the podium!
And once again, the winner is... Isico! For the fifth consecutive year, our institute has been awarded the prestigious SOSORT Award, recognising our innovative and cutting-edge research focused on Artificial Intelligence in the rehabilitation treatment of the spine. The winning research, titled "Developing a new tool for scoliosis screening in a tertiary specialist setting using artificial intelligence: a retrospective study on 10,813 patients" was one of the eight Isico studies presented at the Sosort conference held in Melbourne, Australia, a few weeks ago.
Dr. Francesco Negrini, physiatrist and the first author of the study, comments on this prize... |
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| A feedback from
Melbourne SOSORT conference
Once again, the international SOSORT conference was one of the most important appointments for our institute (eight abstracts were presented), and with a cherry on top, the fifth SOSORT Award was won!
We asked Dr.Sabrina Donzelli, physiatrist and president of SOSORT in 2024, the first woman to hold this position, to tell us something more about the event, given that she was one of the three Isico specialists present in Melbourne (the others were Dr. Fabio Zaina and our Director of Physiotherapy, Michele Romano)... |
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Sport is important if you have scoliosis Absolutely right! The World Health Organisation has stressed the importance of regular physical activity, and this is even more important if you are affected by scoliosis.
In adolescents, regular sporting activity (at least twice a week) has been seen to have a protective action and to reduce the risk of worsening the curve, both in brace wearers and in patients who follow a purely exercise-based treatment. Other studies have shown that scoliosis in school-age children tends to be associated with low or irregular physical activity levels. So, all in all, it is crucial to keep active. |
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Dress green with us in June!
Isico wears green all of June, as it does every year as part of a specific project. Within this dedicated month, June 24th is the "International Scoliosis Awareness Day"
We will commit four weeks of this scoliosis awareness month to share on social media each week a video, a testimonial, or an image to talk about scoliosis and how it is possible to live your day-to-day life while overcoming the challenges of this sometimes very demanding treatment.
Follow us on our social networks, Instagram, Facebook (available in Italian and English), LinkedIn, and Twitter, to not miss our initiatives.
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| ISPRM 2023: keynote lecture by Stefano Negrini
Isico will also be present at the ISPRM Congress in Cartagena, Colombia from June 4th to 8th. The motto of the international conference will be "New perspectives in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation for global health challenges" thus representing the intention of focusing on the current and future rehabilitation health needs of people around the world.
Prof. Stefano Negrini, scientific director of Isico, will give one of the 8 keynote lectures in the Plenary session on New Perspectives on Evidence in Rehabilitation: from history to future...
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| SEAS, flags planted in Turkey, the USA, and Slovenia
The last few weeks have seen us perform our Scoliosis Approach with Exercises, SEAS, first in Turkey, then in Denver, and finally in Slovenia. In Ankara, our Director of Physiotherapy, Michele Romano, held two SEAS Level I courses for about fifty participants. He is almost at home in Turkey after having held many courses there in recent years. A few days ago, in addition, Alessandra Negrini, a physiotherapist, flew to Denver, where she held an advanced SEAS Level II course for 15 participants.
And eventually, a sold-out SEAS Level 1 course in Slovenia from 25 to 27, given by Michele Romano, closed this fully packed month of May. |
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| Prof. Stefano Negrini at the World Health Assembly as Cochrane representative
From May 23 to 26, Stefano Negrini, scientific director of Isico, participated as a Cochrane representative in an event of the World Health Assembly, the main decision-making body of WHO. The event is co-organised by missions to WHO from five countries and several scientific, professional, and patient organisations in the field of rehabilitation. The theme of this year’s Health Assembly was WHO at 75: Saving lives, driving health for all... |
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| 3rd Brazilian Scoliosis Congress
The 3rd Brazilian Congress on Scoliosis, which will take place from June 2–4, is one of the dedicated events worldwide, and Isico has also been invited this time. Our experts, Dr. Fabio Zaina, an Isico physiatrist, and Michele Romano, Isico's director of physiotherapists, will give their contributions with videos recorded for this occasion. For more info about the Congress and to sign up. please visit: https://doity.com.br/3cbe#registration
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| Isico Pills: a video about scoliosis and pregnancy
Isico offers on the YouTube Channel a video format designed for expert professionals, namely, doctors and therapists.
Watch the short video about Scoliosis and Pregnancy by our physiatrist, Dr. Giulia Rebagliati, available with English subtitles and share it with #isicopills on social media. |
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Are bracing and exercises really still the only way to "solve" the problem?
This is a question many parents ask us when scoliosis is diagnosed. Their child may have a particularly tricky curve, or they themselves can remember dealing with the same condition when they were young.
Unfortunately, despite huge strides made in the formulation of less invasive and more effective braces (such as the Sforzesco type that we at ISICO, have long used as a valid substitute for plaster casts), bracing and specific exercises remain the only conservative treatments available for scoliosis... |
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Skiing, playing a musical instrument, dancing or even jumping in the air - is it possible when wearing a brace? Yes, it is; the hundreds of patients who participated during the past 10 years in our Concorsetto, the national ISICO competition dedicated to brace wearers, proved it.
The videos and images of these kids are the best encouragement for those who are preparing to follow a demanding therapy such as that for scoliosis, and who are living the fear of not being able to practice a sport or play an instrument. For our monthly appointment look at the photo on the left how Sara, 12 years old, is going to dive. |
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What results can you expect from treatment for scoliosis?
Unfortunately, with scoliosis, there is no guarantee of a result. In our experience, controlling curves of less than 30° detected in adolescence is not a problem (unlike the infantile and juvenile forms,which almost always worsen in puberty, despite treatment). Instead, it is not uncommon for curves greater than 50° to deteriorate, even when treated.
The problem with curves measuring more than 50° is that it is not enough to stabilise them; they need to be improved. This is possible, but it requires considerable effort, perfectly fabricated braces, which must be worn all the hours prescribed, and the right exercises, well adapted to the ongoing treatment, i.e. perfectly complementing the use of the brace.
In patients with curves measuring between 30° and 50°, with the correct treatment and full compliance, deterioration is very rare (a rate of well below one in every hundred cases, providing everything is done as it should be), but unfortunately it cannot be excluded. |
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The Interrater and Intrarater Reliability of the Humeral Head Ossification System and the Proximal Femur Maturity Index Assessments for Patients with Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis
Huan Wang 1Qing-da Lu, Chen-Xin Liu, Shuai Yang, Bo-Hai Qi, Huan-An Bai, Ji-Ning Qu, Ye Yang, Xiao-Hui Jin, Ming Yang, Fei Su, Ya-Ting Yang, Qiang Jie
Front Pediatr. 2023 Mar 9;11:1131618.doi: 10.3389/fped.2023.1131618. eCollection 2023. |
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