Effect of Spinal Manipulative Therapy Combined with Brace in Moderate-severe Grade Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis: a Randomized Controlled Trial
Abstract
Objective: To determine whether spinal manipulative therapy combined with brace is superior to a control of brace alone in improving spinal deformity and quality of life of moderate-severe grade AIS.
Design: It is a prospective randomized controlled study. Patients who met the inclusion criteria were randomly assigned to either the spinal manipulative therapy combined brace group (SMTB) or the Brace group. All participants were prescribed with a GBW brace and the spinal manipulative regimen was provided to the subjects in the SMBT group. Cobb angle, angle of trunk rotation (ATR), quality of life (SRS-22), progression rates and surgical rates of the subjects were measured at baseline to the 12-month follow-up.
Conditions: Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis, Brace, Spinal Manipulative Therapy.
Primary outcome: curve reduction.
Enrollment: 169 participants.
How strong is the evidence?
Evidence Hub reads this as a randomized trial, done in people. Its evidence level is 2 of 5 (High · randomized trial). Randomized trials of a reasonable size are the strongest single-study design. Reported size: 169 participants or records.
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