Manuel Rigo

Guidelines on "Standards of management of idiopathic scoliosis with corrective braces in everyday clinics and in clinical research": SOSORT Consensus 2008 (2009)

Negrini, Stefano, Grivas, Theodoros B, Kotwicki, Tomasz, Rigo, Manuel, Zaina, Fabio

Abstract Background Reported failure rates,(defined based on percentage of cases progressing to surgery) of corrective bracing for idiopathic scoliosis are highly variable. This may be due to the...

SOSORT consensus paper: school screening for scoliosis. Where are we today? (2007)

Grivas, Theodoros B, Wade, Marian H, Negrini, Stefano, O'Brien, Joseph P, Maruyama, Toru, Hawes, Martha C, ...

Abstract This report is the SOSORT Consensus Paper on School Screening for Scoliosis discussed at the 4 th International Conference on Conservative Management of Spinal Deformities, presented by...

A VERTEBRATE NESTING SITE IN NORTHEASTERN ITALY REVEALS UNEXPECTEDLY COMPLEX BEHAVIOR FOR LATE CARNIAN REPTILES (2007)

MARCO AVANZINI, PAOLO MIETTO, DANIELE PIUBELLI, NEREO PRETO, MANUEL RIGO, ...

We interpret 13 large subcircular or horseshoe-shaped depressions discovered in Late Triassic peritidal carbonate rocks of the Dogna Valley in Udine Province, northeastern Italy, to be reptile nests....

Physical exercises in the treatment of idiopathic scoliosis at risk of brace treatment – SOSORT consensus paper 2005 (2006)

Weiss, Hans-Rudolf, Negrini, Stefano, Hawes, Martha C, Rigo, Manuel, Kotwicki, Tomasz, Grivas, Theodoros B, ...

Abstract Background Based on a recognized need for research to examine the premise that nonsurgical approaches can be used effectively to treat signs and symptoms of scoliosis, a scientific society...

Indications for conservative management of scoliosis (guidelines) (2006)

SOSORT Guideline Committee, Weiss, Hans-Rudolf, Negrini, Stefano, Rigo, Manuel, Kotwicki, Tomasz, Hawes, Martha C, ...

Abstract This guideline has been discussed by the SOSORT guideline committee prior to the SOSORT consensus meeting in Milan, January 2005 and published in its first version on the SOSORT homepage:...

Why do we treat adolescent idiopathic scoliosis? What we want to obtain and to avoid for our patients. SOSORT 2005 Consensus paper (2006)

Negrini, Stefano, Grivas, Theodoros B, Kotwicki, Tomasz, Maruyama, Toru, Rigo, Manuel, Weiss, Hans, ...

Abstract Background Medicine is a scientific art: once science is not clear, choices are made according to individual and collective beliefs that should be better understood. This is particularly...

Indications for conservative management of scoliosis (guidelines)

Weiss, Hans-Rudolf, Negrini, Stefano, Rigo, Manuel, Kotwicki, Tomasz, Hawes, Martha C, Grivas, Theodoros B, ...

This guideline has been discussed by the SOSORT guideline committee prior to the SOSORT consensus meeting in Milan, January 2005 and published in its first version on the SOSORT homepage: . After the...

Indications for conservative management of scoliosis (guidelines)

Weiss, Hans-Rudolf, Negrini, Stefano, Rigo, Manuel, Kotwicki, Tomasz, Hawes, Martha C, Grivas, Theodoros B, ...

This guideline has been discussed by the SOSORT guideline committee prior to the SOSORT consensus meeting in Milan, January 2005 and published in its first version on the SOSORT homepage: . After the...

SOSORT consensus paper: school screening for scoliosis. Where are we today?

Grivas, Theodoros B, Wade, Marian H, Negrini, Stefano, O'Brien, Joseph P, Maruyama, Toru, Hawes, Martha C, ...

This report is the SOSORT Consensus Paper on School Screening for Scoliosis discussed at the 4th International Conference on Conservative Management of Spinal Deformities, presented by SOSORT, on May...

Radiation-free quantitative assessment of scoliosis: a multi center prospective study

Ovadia, Dror, Bar-On, Elhanan, Fragnière, Bruno, Rigo, Manuel, Dickman, Dalia, Leitner, Joseph, ...

Accurate quantitative measurements of the spine are essential for deformity diagnosis and assessment of curve progression. There is much concern related to the multiple exposures to ionizing...