Indications for conservative management of scoliosis (guidelines)

SOSORT guideline committee; Hans-Rudolf Weiss; Stefano Negrini; Manuel Rigo; Tomasz Kotwicki; Martha C Hawes; Theodoros B Grivas; Toru Maruyama; Franz Landauer

doi:10.1186/1748-7161-1-5

Indications for conservative management of scoliosis (guidelines)

Scoliosis. 2006 May 8:1:5. doi: 10.1186/1748-7161-1-5.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Asklepios Katharina Schroth Spinal Deformities Rehabilitation Centre, Bad Sobernheim, Germany.
² ISICO (Italian Scientific Spine Institute), Milan, Italy.
³ Instituto Èlena Salvá, Barcelona, Spain.
⁴ University of Medical Sciences, Poznan, Poland.
⁵ University of Arizona, Tucson AZ 85721, USA.
⁶ Orthopaedic Department "Thriasion" General Hospital, Magula, Athens, Greece.
⁷ Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Teikyo University School of Medicine, 2-11-1 Kaga, Itabashi-ku, Tokyo 173-8605, Japan.
⁸ Landesklinik für Orthopädie, Müllner Hauptstr. 48, A-5020 Salzburg, Austria.

^# Contributed equally.

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. 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.