The CMP Brace Curve Correction
Potentially superior curve correction when compared to customized standard design braces.
The International Scientific Society on Scoliosis Orthopaedic and Rehabilitation Treatment (SOSORT) produced its first guidelines in 2005 and renewed them in 2011. Recently published high-quality clinical trials on the effect of conservative treatment approaches (braces and exercises) for idiopathic scoliosis prompted us to update the last 2016 guidelines’
The objective was to align the guidelines with the new scientific evidence to assure faster knowledge transfer into clinical practice of conservative treatment for idiopathic scoliosis (CTIS) on brace treatment first published by SOSORT in 2005.
As a rule, better in-brace curve correction predicts better treatment outcomes. There are, however, many caveats to this and SOSORT guidelines aim to guide best clinical practice for conservative scoliosis treatment. CMP Brace design follows all the best practice guidelines, intrinsic to our braces. The Boston Brace was for many years seen as the gold standard of scoliosis brace treatment, however, today its principles are far from optimal. There is consensus agreement that optimal in-brace correction of the spine requires overcorrection of the body posture rather than attempting to neutralise it in a symmetrical brace like Boston.
This is the reason your CMP brace will rarely be anything near symmetrical, its design will seek to overcorrect the postural changes provoked by the scoliosis. Often this overcorrection will be significant, potentially a mirror image of the patient’s original posture. The degree of over correction provided in a CMP brace will vary. The degree of correction provided in each case is carefully assessed by the clinical design team based on review of the patient’s x-ray’s, posture and supplementary information provided by the clinician. Too much correction and the brace may be impossible for the patient to tolerate, too little and the in-brace curve correction will be suboptimal.