title: Indications for conservative management of scoliosis (SOSORT guidelines).
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: http://www.sosort.org/meetings.php. After the meeting it again has been discussed by the members of the SOSORT guideline committee to establish the final 2005 version submitted to Scoliosis, the official Journal of the society, in December 2005. This chapter is a republication from the original paper published in "Scoliosis" BioMed journal and it is included in this book due to its high importance.
authors.affiliation: Asklepios Katharina Schroth Spinal Deformities Rehabilitation Centre, Bad Sobernheim, Germany.
authors.forename: Hans-Rudolf
authors.initials: HR
authors.lastname: Weiss
authors.forename: Stefano
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Negrini
authors.forename: Manuel
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Rigo
authors.forename: Tomasz
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kotwicki
authors.forename: Martha C
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Hawes
authors.forename: Theodoros B
authors.initials: TB
authors.lastname: Grivas
authors.forename: Toru
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Maruyama
authors.forename: Franz
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Landauer
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002985:Clinical Protocols; D017408:Guidelines as Topic; D006801:Humans; D012600:Scoliosis / Q000145:classification / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy*