Dr. Marc Moramarco and Amy Heller OTR/L of Scoliosis 3DC (Boston area) recently taught a Schroth Best Practice® certification course for healthcare professionals. The Schroth course took place in San Francisco, California at the state-of-the-art facilities of UCSF. Schroth Best Practice® practitioners are trained to teach patients scoliosis-specific exercise, according to individual curve pattern,… Read More
Dr. Moramarco recently traveled to a scoliosis conference in beautiful Istanbul, Turkey. The 1st International Conference on Scoliosis Management was sponsored by the Scoliosis Society of Turkey and attended primarily by conservative-minded European scoliosis practitioners of varying philosophies. There was a strong representation of Schroth Best Practice practitioners from Europe and Asia. Many attendees were also… Read More
3D Scoliosis Bracing in the Caribbean Marc Moramarco, DC recently returned from Barbados where he offered guidance and support to Tamisha Best-Gittens, DPT of Mobile Physical Therapy during her official launch of 3D scoliosis bracing in the Caribbean! While there, he spent time at her Christ Church clinic where Best-Gittens officially fit and adjusted her… Read More
We just returned from Leipzig, Germany where Dr. Marc gave a presentation at OTWorld – a world congress and leading international trade fair for specialists in prosthetics, orthotics, and orthopedic rehabilitation. His presentation (last Friday) was part of a symposium on scoliosis chaired by Josef Lammert and Dr. Franz Landauer of Germany. Dr. Marc’s presentation… Read More
We (Dr. Marc & Kathy) just concluded a busy week of travel related to scoliosis bracing in California and Hawaii. Dr. Marc spent three full days seeing patients in the Los Angeles area. He did initial evaluations, and fitted and adjusted many braces. Several patients came from as far as Colorado, Utah, San Francisco, Orange… Read More
Last week, Dr. Moramarco spoke at the AOPA (American Orthotist and Prosthetic Association) World Congress in Las Vegas. His topic: Is Idiopathic Scoliosis ≥40° Amenable to Bracing at the Later Stages of Skeletal Maturity? The 28 patients in the cohort he reported on were fit with the Cheneau-Gensingen 3D brace by either Dr. Marc or… Read More
Dr. Moramarco just returned from Cape Town, South Africa where he gave a Schroth method presentation at the ISPO (International Society for Prosthetics & Orthotics) 16th World Congress. Four Schroth Best Practice® colleagues from around the globe convened to instruct on protocols for conservative scoliosis treatment and Schroth bracing. Dr. Weiss started the course by talking… Read More
This post comes from France. We are concluding our stay at the ISPO 2015 (International Society of Prosthetics and Orthotics) Annual Congress. Marc and I had the pleasure of visiting Lyon this week with Dr. Weiss and Maksym Borysov, PT, CPO of Ukraine. The three were invited to conduct an instructional course on the conservative… Read More
We are really proud of the work we do at S3DC and especially encouraged to have had Dr. Marc invited to present on idiopathic scoliosis and pulmonary function at a workshop at the American Thoracic Society International Conference 2015 in Denver this past Monday. The invitation is a testament to the inroads he’s helped forge… Read More
Dr. Marc’s recent German and Russia adventure began in Germany with Dr. Weiss. The two spent two days assessing and fitting patients for the Chêneau – Gensingen brace. Conversations included recent developments to the Chêneau bracing system – Gensingen library, Schroth Best Practice® and testing and planning for for the launch of 3-D scanning for easy… Read More
“Needless to say, [the surgeon] was very pleasantly surprised to see a true reduction in her curves. When I thanked him for being supportive even though we went against his [watch & wait] advice he responded, ‘You can’t argue with those results.’” Read More
We just got back from a follow-up visit with her orthopedist at our local Children’s Hospital. When the orthopedist came in to share the x-ray results with us, both him and his physician’s assistant were wide-eyed and shaking their heads because our daughter’s continual improvement is astounding to them! The orthopedist told us that if he… Read More
“Wonderful staff and this program offers the best in non-surgical scoliosis care!!” Read More
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