Corrective Movement Principle

Corrective Movement Principle
What makes the SpineCor brace different, what makes it so effective? The difference lies is in the concept of the brace. Rigid braces work by forcing the spine into position, with the 3-point pressure principle. Rigid braces, however, are much like a cast in the fact that their use promotes muscular atrophy, which can destabilize the spine.

The SpineCor brace is a semi-soft dynamic brace that does not physically force the patient’s spine into position, but rather assists the patient into maintaining what is called the Corrective Movement. The Corrective Movement Principle is based upon the concept that each type of scoliosis has a postural movement that will unwind the patient’s scoliosis and straighten the spine. The elastic bands that comprise the SpineCor brace are then applied in certain configurations to keep the patient in their corrective movement.

While the patient is in their corrective movement their spine is straighter, but the patient will feel as though they are standing crooked, and that is true their external posture is very disorganized. So the patient will attempt to move back to where their body feels normal, however, that position will return the spine to the scoliosis position. This is where the SpineCor brace goes to work returning the patient to the Corrective Movement Posture and straightening the spine. This struggle eventually retrains the muscular system and the neurological system to maintain the corrected posture and spinal position. Therefore the patient is able to maintain the corrected position when the brace is eventually discontinued. Also, eventually the patient’s external posture does reorganize and the patient’s external posture and internal structure are normalized.

The Corrective Movement Principle will also apply corrective force to the vertebra of the spine and thus equalize the stresses on the effected growth plates, in turn helping to minimize the deformation and stabilizing the scoliosis.

So the Corrective Movement Principle utilized by the SpineCor brace will actually produce positive changes in the Muscular system, the neurological system and the osseous structures. Rigid braces only apply stress to the osseous structures, which leaves the muscular system to weaken, hence the high failure rate of rigid braces.

The researchers responsible for the SpineCor brace have also published a study on the Corrective Movement Principle, which supports the concept and shows it to be very effective in the treatment of idiopathic scoliosis. With 75% of patients in this study stabilizing their scoliosis and then 93% of those patients maintaining those results after 2 years. The sample size in this article is 349 patients, so the outcomes are definitive.
Disabil Rehabil Assist Technol. 2008 May;3(3):112-9.
A new concept for the non-invasive treatment of Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis: the Corrective Movement principle integrated in the SpineCor System.
Coillard C, Circo A, Rivard CH

Below are some examples of what the Corrective Movement Principle can do to a scoliosis curve.

The first example is a 50-degree left lumbar scoliosis. The corrective movement for this scoliosis is seen in picture #2. As you can see the Corrective Movement posture reduces this large scoliosis 20 degrees. So when this patient puts their brace on, they put themselves into the Corrective Movement posture and then they apply their brace in the band combination that keeps them in that posture. So in the brace they are constantly being maintained in a 30-degree scoliosis versus a 50-degree scoliosis.

The second example shows a 28-degree left thoracolumbar scoliosis in picture #1. Picture #2 shows the patient in their corrective movement position. As you can see the spine is virtually straight. So when this patient applies their brace their spine is virtually straight. This is something that I have not seen in patients wearing a hard brace. This is what makes the SpineCor brace unique and highly effective.