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Fall 2013
Scoliosis affects 2.5% of adolescents and 90% of these adolescents have mild curves of less than 25°. These adolescents do not currently have any active treatments to prevent curve progression. Literature suggests that exercise-based treatment may be able to help patients with mild scoliosis....
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Fall 2020
Adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS) is a spinal disorder causing abnormal curvature of the spine in three dimensions (3D), starting in the patient’s adolescence, and having no known cause. Bracing is the most common non-surgical method of treating AIS, but the brace design is heavily reliant on...