Figure 2

Patient from North America with a thoracic curve of 56° initially treated with a Milwaukee brace (upper line of pictures). The curve corrected from 56 to 53°, only. The same curve has been corrected to 27° in a Chêneau brace with a good clinical and cosmetic intermediate result. Nevertheless, the patient from North America finally decided to have spinal surgery, although the Chêneau brace treatment seemed promising.