ArticleNorth American Spine Society journal2022
Providence nighttime brace is as effective as fulltime Boston brace for female patients with adolescent idiopathic scoliosis: A retrospective analysis of a randomized cohort.
Article in North American Spine Society journal, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.
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9 citing papers in PubMed, 13 citations in OpenAlex.
- Effectiveness of nighttime vs full-time bracing in the treatment of moderate-grade adolescent idiopathic scoliosis: a secondary analysis of the CONTRAIS trial.Acta orthopaedica · 2025Trial
- Providence Bracing in Idiopathic Scoliosis: A Scoping Review.Journal of the Pediatric Orthopaedic Society of North America · 2026Review
- Comparison of Effectiveness Between Providence Nighttime Versus Full-Time Brace in Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis: A Narrative Review.Medical sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Conservative treatment of adolescent idiopathic scoliosis: the effectiveness of rigid bracing.Journal of orthopaedic surgery and research · 2025Article
- Nighttime versus Fulltime Brace Treatment for Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis: Which Brace to Choose? A Retrospective Study on 358 Patients.Journal of clinical medicine · 2023Article
- Scoliosis Bracing: Details Make the Difference.Journal of the Pediatric Orthopaedic Society of North America · 2023Review
- Computational Biomechanics of Sleep: A Systematic Mapping Review.Bioengineering (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- The effectiveness of scoliosis treatment is not a matter of the type of brace.North American Spine Society journal · 2023Article
- Idiopathic Scoliosis: Novel Challenges for Researchers and Clinicians.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
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Abstract
Background: Progressive moderate scoliotic curves in patients with adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS) are usually treated with a fulltime brace, e.g., the Boston brace (BB). The Providence nighttime brace (PNB), is an alternative which is designed to reach the same treatment effectiveness by nighttime wear only. Few studies compared treatment effectiveness between full and nighttime bracing with contradictory results. Methods: Immature female patients older than 10 years with progressive moderate AIS curves with an apex below T6 were randomized into PNB ( Results: A total of 105 patients ( Conclusions: Both brace regimes are equally effective in treating moderate AIS curves with apex of the main curve below T6 in immature female patients older than 10 years.
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