Figure 2

Patient with a thoracic curve of 56° corrected to 53° in her Milwaukee brace adjusted in North America (upper line). With this little correction effect one can predict no favourable outcome after this treatment. The question to be asked is: Is this patient a non-responder? In a brace of the Chêneau type she gained an in-brace correction down to 27° and after 15 months of treatment she clinically improved and her curve (without the brace) was 36° (lower line).