The Whisper Brace® Comes to Boston
We are so pleased to announce that the Whisper Brace® is now available at Scoliosis 3DC®. Scoliosis 3DC® was founded to offer families and individuals the most effective choices for proactive, conservative scoliosis care and management. Since our inception, nearly twenty years ago, our goal has been to educate, enable, and empower those with scoliosis–doing everything possible to help patients find ways to manage scoliosis and avoid spinal fusion surgery. In keeping with those goals, we are pleased to now offer the Whisper Brace® to our repertoire of scoliosis treatments.
After so many decades of limited options for managing scoliosis, kids, their parents, and adults with scoliosis want–no, deserve–to have access to viable, effective treatment options. Customized scoliosis bracing is essential and let’s face it, even with customization, not every scoliosis brace is right for each patient. This is why choice is so important when it comes to treating scoliosis conservatively.
Once medical professionals diagnose scoliosis, if they deem scoliosis bracing is warranted most will still only offer one type of scoliosis brace. We see this firsthand all the time and we’re in Boston–an area known as a ‘medical Mecca,’ not a remote, rural part of the country. Scoliosis is not a one size fits all condition. Recommendations for care must take the patient and their unique circumstances into account. Merely providing patients with choices can help improve compliance. And, compliance is a key component when it comes to successful scoliosis management.
Whether treating young kids, teens, or adults with scoliosis we take our role of helping families navigate scoliosis to a successful outcome quite seriously. Success isn’t just maintaining or reducing the Cobb angles and/or rotation associated with scoliosis. It means making the experience as tolerable and least burdensome, psychologically, on the patient. By offering what we consider to be the two best scoliosis bcing options available, families can choose which scoliosis brace style will work best for their child/family member.
Whisper Brace® Features:
The Whisper Brace® is a “dynamic,” innovative scoliosis bracing option which offers:
- mobility like no other brace ever marketed for scoliosis.
- the patient the opportunity to eat to their hearts’ content without having to loosen their brace.
- a more open design. The torso stays cooler and allows for an improved experience compared to hard plastics which, for some, may lead to skin irritations.
- easier, faster fittings (compared to rigid braces) and adjustability to control pressure. The Whisper Brace® can “grow” with your child more so than other types of scoliosis braces. This translates to fewer braces for a growing child–a big plus for the nine, ten, eleven year-olds with scoliosis.
- technological capability. The Whisper Brace® has a built in monitoring system to track wearing time. Not only that, pressure measurements in real time are in the works and incorporated soon.
If your child has a scoliosis brace they are having difficulty tolerating, the Whisper Brace® is a brace worthy of consideration. Do you/your child like the idea of a brace that will allow movement? Will the added mobility, in-brace, help them to be more compliant with brace wear? From a psychological standpoint, would this type of brace help your child adapt/cope better with scoliosis bracing? If these factors matter to you/your child, please call us to learn more about the Whisper Brace®.
The Whisper Brace® and the Scoliosis 3DC® – Schroth Program
Another exciting prospect for Scoliosis 3DC® patients are the potential advantages of combining our Schroth Method program–also custom-designed for the individual–with the Whisper Brace®.
Our knowledgeable, experienced team have garnered rave reviews from the families who have come to see us for scoliosis treatment. To the best of our knowledge, there is no other location in the US that offers patients the potential of combining the synergy of the Schroth Method with the Whisper Brace®. It’s an exciting prospect for scoliosis care.
If your child has been diagnosed and has growth ahead–even a bit–acting right away rather than hesitating is imperative for the best possible outcome at the conclusion of growth. Whether diagnosed with scoliosis at 15º, 20º, 30º, 40º or greater–it’s important to counteract the Vicious Cycle of Scoliosis right away for the best chance at avoiding scoliosis progression. When a growing child has even a small degree of spinal decompensation, clinically or on x-ray, the time to act is right away whether that is via bracing, postural modification techniques specific to a child’s curve pattern, or both. The goal is to interrupt the continued spinal decompensation which is what leads to progression.
If you live in the Boston area, New England, New York–or even distances beyond–and are interested in the best scoliosis bracing options, taking a proactive approach via scoliosis exercise, or both, please give us a call. We look forward to speaking with you and having the honor of helping you navigate scoliosis to a successful outcome.
