Society guideline links: Idiopathic scoliosis in adolescents

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International

●International Scientific Society on Scoliosis Orthopaedic and Rehabilitation Treatment (SOSORT): 2016 guidelines – Orthopaedic and rehabilitation treatment of idiopathic scoliosis during growth (published in 2018)

●Optimal surgical care for adolescent idiopathic scoliosis – An international consensus (2014)

●SOSORT: 2012 consensus paper – Reducing X-ray exposure in pediatric patients with scoliosis (published 2014)

Canada

●Choosing Wisely Canada: Don't miss the opportunity to brace the skeletally immature patient with adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS) who has more than one year of growth remaining and a curve magnitude greater than 20 degrees (2018)

United States

●American College of Radiology (ACR), the Society for Pediatric Radiology (SPR), and the Society of Skeletal Radiology (SSR): Practice parameter for the performance of radiography for scoliosis in children (revised 2019)

●ACR: ACR Appropriateness Criteria scoliosis – Child (2018)

●US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF): Final recommendation statement – Adolescent idiopathic scoliosis: Screening (2018)

●Scoliosis Research Society (SRS)/American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS)/Pediatric Orthopaedic Society of North America (POSNA)/American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP): Position statement – Screening for the early detection for idiopathic scoliosis in adolescents (revised 2015)

United Kingdom

●National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE): Interventional procedures guidance on vertebral body tethering for idiopathic scoliosis in children and young people (2022)