The pendulum has swung too far. Bracing for adolescent idiopathic scoliosis in the 1990s.

During the past 10 years, the brace treatment of adolescent idiopathic scoliosis has been highly controversial. In the 1960s, brace treatment was pursued enthusiastically; whereas in the 1980s, brace treatment was received negatively. As is typical in most of medicine, when such opposing philosophies exist, the truth lies somewhere in between. This article describes the middle ground, the place brace treatment now stands, in the 1990s.