Juvenile Scoliosis Bracing
About Juvenile Scoliosis Bracing
High Risk of Curve Progression
Children with juvenile scoliosis generally face a high risk of curve progression. Research [1] has shown that many children with this condition will experience worsening of their spinal curve and require active treatment. Juvenile curves almost never resolve on their own, making monitoring and early management essential.
Importance of Early Detection
Because juvenile scoliosis can progress significantly during periods of rapid growth, early detection and early treatment are crucial. Identifying changes in the spine as soon as possible allows families to explore timely intervention options that may prevent further progression.
How Bracing Helps
The goal of early bracing is to support overall spinal balance, helping maintain an upright posture, improve strength and flexibility, reduce pain, and enhance quality of life. Bracing aims to control curve progression, halt worsening, and—where possible—correct the curve, potentially reducing the need for future surgery.
Bracing Treatment
Our Approach to Juvenile Bracing
Custom Brace Design for Juveniles
Our approach to scoliosis bracing for juvenile patients combines advanced technology, evidence-based methods, and experienced clinicians to create fully custom 3D over-corrective braces.
Using an iPad-mounted structured light scanner, our BraceScan software captures full 3D body scans in any position. These scans, along with digital X-rays, posture photos and other clinical details, are used to design an over-corrective ScoliBrace® that improves three-dimensional spinal alignment by harnessing spinal coupling rather than traditional 3-point pressure.
Because every curve is unique, every brace is unique.
ScoliCare’s focus is to accurately assess each curve from the start and recommend treatment options tailored to each patient. To see if bracing may be suitable for your loved one, contact us for an assessment.
Our brace for juvenile patients is a 3D custom-made over-corrective ScoliBrace® designed to guide the body and spine into a posture opposite to the scoliosis curve.
It is generally used for curves between 25–60° Cobb, though specific indications depend on age, curve type, flexibility, and severity.
Key goals include controlling curve progression during rapid growth, aiming to halt or even correct the curve, and potentially reducing the need for surgery.
Contact us if you have questions about our juvenile bracing system or to see if bracing may be a suitable option.
Success Stories from our Clinics
Thank you to these patients for allowing us to share their case studies.
Case – Juvenile Bracing (7 year old patient)
Patient aged 7 years with scoliosis thoracic curve measured at 32° and lumbar curve measured at 27° In-brace correction achieved with a custom 3D designed scoliosis brace compared with a standard TLSO in a juvenile scoliosis patient Summary: This case demonstrates the effect of a custom 3D designed scoliosis orthosis. Read More
Case – Adult Bracing (88 year old female)
This case details the successful management using a a 3D designed custom scoliosis brace, of an older female with a degenerative de novo scoliosis because of earlier spinal trauma many years earlier, and a pelvic obliquity. The patient initially presented to the ScoliCare clinic at age 88 with a degenerative left lumbar curve. Read More
Case – Scoliosis Specific Exercise (14 year old female)
Patient was referred to a ScoliCare Clinic by an orthopaedic surgeon for exercise rehabilitation treatment for scoliosis. The patient presented with a left coronal imbalance which proved to be a primary left thoracolumbar curve measured at 17 degrees. Read More
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[1] Charles YP, Saures J-P, de Rosa V, and Diméglio A. Progression risk of idiopathic juvenile scoliosis during pubertal growth. Spine 2006. Aug 1;31(17):1933-42. doi: 10.1097/01.brs.0000229230.68870.97.