Specific exercises performed in the period of brace weaning can avoid loss of correction in Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis (AIS) patients: Winner of SOSORT's 2008 Award for Best Clinical Paper

Table 2 Population characteristics at first brace prescription (T-1), at the start of brace weaning (T0) and at the end of treatment (T1).

SEAS: patients who performed exercises according to our institute's protocol; OTH: patients who performed other exercises; DIS: patients who performed exercises discontinuously; NO: patients who never performed exercises. There were no statistically significant differences among groups at T-1, T0, T1. For Cobb angles and ATR there were statistically significant differences from T-1 to T0, from T0 to T1 and from T-1 to T1 except from T1 to T0 for ATR.

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