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SOSORT consensus & guidelines articles

Scoliosis and Spinal Disorders, the official publication of the Society on Scoliosis Orthopaedic and Rehabilitation Treatment (SOSORT), has published several key consensus & guidelines articles from society meetings and workshops over the years. These resources are fully open access and accessible from PubMed and other repositories such as PubMed Central.

 Published in Scoliosis and Spinal Disorders

  1. The International Scientific Society on Scoliosis Orthopaedic and Rehabilitation Treatment (SOSORT) produced its first guidelines in 2005 and renewed them in 2011. Recently published high-quality clinical tria...

    Authors: Stefano Negrini, Sabrina Donzelli, Angelo Gabriele Aulisa, Dariusz Czaprowski, Sanja Schreiber, Jean Claude de Mauroy, Helmut Diers, Theodoros B. Grivas, Patrick Knott, Tomasz Kotwicki, Andrea Lebel, Cindy Marti, Toru Maruyama, Joe O’Brien, Nigel Price, Eric Parent…
    Citation: Scoliosis and Spinal Disorders 2018 13:3
    Content type: Review Published on:

  2. The two main societies clinically dealing with idiopathic scoliosis are the Scoliosis Research Society (SRS), founded in 1966, and the international Society on Scoliosis Orthopedic and Rehabilitation Treatment...

    Authors: Stefano Negrini, Timothy M Hresko, Joseph P O’Brien and Nigel Price
    Citation: Scoliosis 2015 10:8
    Content type: Review Published on:

  3. This 2012 Consensus paper reviews the literature on side effects of x-ray exposure in the pediatric population as it relates to scoliosis evaluation and treatment. Alternative methods of spinal assessment and ...

    Authors: Patrick Knott, Eden Pappo, Michelle Cameron, JC deMauroy, Charles Rivard, Tomasz Kotwicki, Fabio Zaina, James Wynne, Luke Stikeleather, Josette Bettany-Saltikov, Theodoros B Grivas, Jacek Durmala, Toru Maruyama, Stefano Negrini, Joseph P O’Brien and Manuel Rigo
    Citation: Scoliosis 2014 9:4
    Content type: Review Published on:

  4. The International Scientific Society on Scoliosis Orthopaedic and Rehabilitation Treatment (SOSORT), that produced its first Guidelines in 2005, felt the need to revise them and increase their scientific quali...

    Authors: Stefano Negrini, Angelo G Aulisa, Lorenzo Aulisa, Alin B Circo, Jean Claude de Mauroy, Jacek Durmala, Theodoros B Grivas, Patrick Knott, Tomasz Kotwicki, Toru Maruyama, Silvia Minozzi, Joseph P O'Brien, Dimitris Papadopoulos, Manuel Rigo, Charles H Rivard, Michele Romano…
    Citation: Scoliosis 2012 7:3
    Content type: Methodology Published on:

  5. This report is the SOSORT Consensus Paper on Terminology for use in the treatment of conservative spinal deformities. Figures are provided and relevant literature is cited where appropriate.

    Authors: Theodoros B Grivas, Jean Claude de Mauroy, Stefano Négrini, Tomasz Kotwicki, Fabio Zaina, James H Wynne, Ian A Stokes, Patrick Knott, Paolo Pizzetti, Manuel Rigo, Monica Villagrasa, Hans Rudolf Weiss and Toru Maruyama
    Citation: Scoliosis 2010 5:23
    Content type: Editorial Published on:

  6. Thoracic hyperkyphosis is a frequent problem and can impact greatly on patient's quality of life during adolescence. This condition can be idiopathic or secondary to Scheuermann disease, a disease disturbing v...

    Authors: JC de Mauroy, HR Weiss, AG Aulisa, L Aulisa, JI Brox, J Durmala, C Fusco, TB Grivas, J Hermus, T Kotwicki, G Le Blay, A Lebel, L Marcotte, S Negrini, L Neuhaus, T Neuhaus…
    Citation: Scoliosis 2010 5:9
    Content type: Review Published on:

  7. Comprehensive evaluation of the morphology of the spine and of the whole body is essential in order to correctly manage patients suffering from progressive idiopathic scoliosis. Although methodology of clinica...

    Authors: Tomasz Kotwicki, Stefano Negrini, Theodoros B Grivas, Manuel Rigo, Toru Maruyama, Jacek Durmala and Fabio Zaina
    Citation: Scoliosis 2009 4:26
    Content type: Research Published on:

  8. Reported failure rates,(defined based on percentage of cases progressing to surgery) of corrective bracing for idiopathic scoliosis are highly variable. This may be due to the quality of the brace itself, but ...

    Authors: Stefano Negrini, Theodoros B Grivas, Tomasz Kotwicki, Manuel Rigo and Fabio Zaina
    Citation: Scoliosis 2009 4:2
    Content type: Research Published on:

  9. 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 ob...

    Authors: Theodoros B Grivas, Marian H Wade, Stefano Negrini, Joseph P O'Brien, Toru Maruyama, Martha C Hawes, Manuel Rigo, Hans Rudolf Weiss, Tomasz Kotwicki, Elias S Vasiliadis, Lior Neuhaus Sulam and Tamar Neuhous
    Citation: Scoliosis 2007 2:17
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  10. The effectiveness of orthotic treatment continues to be controversial in international medical literature due to differences in the reported results and conclusions of various studies. Heterogeneity of the sam...

    Authors: M Rigo, S Negrini, HR Weiss, TB Grivas, T Maruyama and T Kotwicki
    Citation: Scoliosis 2006 1:11
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  11. Based on a recognized need for research to examine the premise that nonsurgical approaches can be used effectively to treat signs and symptoms of scoliosis, a scientific society on scoliosis orthopaedic and re...

    Authors: Hans-Rudolf Weiss, Stefano Negrini, Martha C Hawes, Manuel Rigo, Tomasz Kotwicki, Theodoros B Grivas and Toru Maruyama
    Citation: Scoliosis 2006 1:6
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  12. 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:

    Authors: Hans-Rudolf Weiss, Stefano Negrini, Manuel Rigo, Tomasz Kotwicki, Martha C Hawes, Theodoros B Grivas, Toru Maruyama and Franz Landauer
    Citation: Scoliosis 2006 1:5
    Content type: Methodology Published on:

  13. Medicine is a scientific art: once science is not clear, choices are made according to individual and collective beliefs that should be better understood. This is particularly true in a field like adolescent i...

    Authors: Stefano Negrini, Theodoros B Grivas, Tomasz Kotwicki, Toru Maruyama, Manuel Rigo and Hans Rudolf Weiss
    Citation: Scoliosis 2006 1:4
    Content type: Methodology Published on: