ScoliCare has developed its own unique scoliosis brace called a ScoliBrace. ScoliBrace is an evidence-based, non-surgical treatment for scoliosis and kyphosis in children, adolescents and adults. It is only available through ScoliCare clinics and certified ScoliBrace Providers.
This unique bracing approach brings together the best technology, evidence-based techniques and experienced clinicians to get the best possible outcome for patients with scoliosis. No two braces are the same and your customized brace is as unique as your curve.
Each ScoliBrace is custom designed and made for the patient with the latest in 3D scanning technology and computer aided design and manufacture (CAD CAM), using a specific design algorithm and a patient-centered approach to bracing treatment. This ensures that patients fitted with a ScoliBrace receive the world’s best possible 3D custom-made scoliosis brace for their individual curve.
Rather than using a traditional mindset of trying to immobilize the spine through a brace, the ScoliBrace approach genuinely attempts to individualize the correction and achieve an improved alignment of the spine and body posture in the brace.
The brace’s over-corrective approach harnesses spinal coupling, not 3 point pressure, to create a better position of the three-dimensional posture of the body. In this position, the brace then works to retrain the neurological connection between the brain, joints and muscles to control the body posture so that the body adapts to a ‘new normal’, ideally a straighter position of the spine.
As ScoliBrace is designed to allow for this retraining, it can be used in cases outside of the traditional recommendation of adolescents during the rapid growth spurt, including infant, juvenile, adolescent, adult and hyperkyphosis cases.
Additionally, as ScoliBrace does not use 3-point pressure to immobilize the spine, the muscles do not weaken like they often do in traditional braces.
In fact, ScoliBrace allows movement into a more corrected position. When ScoliBrace and scoliosis specific exercise are combined, research+ shows that muscle endurance and spinal flexibility can be improved during treatment..
+ Improvement of trunk muscle endurance in Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis (AIS) patients undergoing ScoliBrace and Scientific Exercise Approach to Scoliosis (SEAS) treatment, SOSORT Book of Abstracts, SOSORT Lyon 2017. Paper here
ScoliBrace can be used as part of a complete approach to care for patients with scoliosis or kyphosis. It may assist to:
Individual results may vary.
While each case is different, the journey is similar so patients can know what to expect at each stage.
Using a portable, highly-accurate 3D scanner, in conjunction with an iPad and proprietary software app called BraceScan, each patient is scanned in 3D across 360 degrees in various postures.
3D scans are then combined with digital x-rays, posture photos, and other important clinical information to begin the brace design process. Expert CAD designers design the brace, ensuring that the end product, ScoliBrace®, is the most effective brace for the patient.
Every ScoliBrace is professionally fitted at the patient’s brace fitting consultation. Clinicians will discuss the treatment management plan and make any necessary modifications to the brace for comfort or correction.
Each patient’s progress will be reviewed regularly at scheduled visits. Progress and any other changes will be monitored closely and adjustments made to the ScoliBrace and treatment plan as needed, aiming for the best possible outcomes.
We’d like to thank our patients for their permission to use their images and results in our case studies. These studies are not to be reproduced without written permission from ScoliCare.
Female aged 14 years with a 34° thoracolumbar curve. Reduction of Severe Scoliosis using a 3D Designed Custom Scoliosis Orthosis in a Young Active Female Summary: This case details the successful management of a young active female with adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS) using a using a 3D designed custom scoliosis…
