The 10th International SOSORT meeting was held at the Sofitel Hotel on Chestnut Street in the Chicago Loop.  The scientific meeting saw 152 attendees who benefitted from 67 abstract presentations, 10 posters, and 3 keynote speakers. Almost 50 participants attended the pre-conference course chaired by Cindy Marti, PT.  Forty attendees participated in the post-meeting research course, chaired by Josette Bettany-Saltikov, PT.

SOSORT 2019 – San Francisco – Book of Abstracts

Corrections to 2019 Program Book

Local Host – Patrick Knott

Membership: Fabio Zaina, MD

Finance: Fabio Zaina, MD

Website: JC DeMauroy

Newsletter: Fabio Zaina, MD

Education: Josette Bettany-Saltikov, PT

Advisory Board: Tomasz Kotwicki, MD, PhD

Consensus: Stefano Negrini, MD

Research: Tomasz Kotwicki, MD, PhD

SOSORT/ SRS Course: Joe O’Brien and Theo Grivas

Elections: Stefano Negrini

SOSORT Awards

A Review of the Impact and Outcomes of the 2004 US Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Against Scoliosis Screening
Joe O’Brien, Joanna Chowanska

Brace Treatment in Juvenile Idiopathic Scoliosis: A prospective study with outcomes in agreement with SRS committee on bracing and nonoperative management standardization criteria
Angelo Aulisa, Vincenzo Guzzanti, Francesco Falciglia, Emanuele Marzetti, Marco Peruzzi, Lorenzo Aulisa

Special Recognition for Excellence

The effects of a six-month Schroth intervention for Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis:  A preliminary analysis of an ongoing randomized controlled trial
Sanja Schreiber, Eric Parent, Douglas Hedden, Marc Moreau, Douglas Hill, Elise Watkins

 Prospective Study of 393 adolescent thoracic hyperkyphosis treated by the Lyon method
JC deMauroy, Fort Didier