Since an evidence-based personalised conservative approach (EBPCA) to Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis has never been checked, the investigators studied a prospectively collected multicenter cohort with the aim to verify in the different clinical situations 1) the existence, characteristics and determinants of EBPCA; 2) the obtained results and their determinant; 3) the rate of over- and under-treatment and their determinants. These results are expected to check the actual evidence in everyday clinic, to provide a benchmark for future studies, and to inform guidelines producers and consequently health policy in high income countries, but also and particularly in low-middle income countries where surgery is difficult due to the high costs, and missing competences and structures.
This study evaluates in a prospectively collected multicenter cohort the existence, characteristics and determinants of EBPCA, the obtained results and their determinant, the rate of over- and under-treatment and their determinants.