The Effects of Orthotic Underwear on Cobb’s angle and Pain of in Patients with Non-structural Scoliosis

Patients with non-structural Scoliosis experience the weakening of central stabilization muscle and orthotic underwear can strongly support the muscles, resulting in the correction. The purpose of this investigation aims to examine the changes that Non-structural Scoliosis patients will experience after the use of orthotic underwear, such as Cobb’s angle, and the changes in pain that patients experience. Twenty patients with unstructured scoliosis were selected. Those twenty patients were divided into the Schroth exercise group and the orthotic underwear group for an examination. The Schroth exercise method went through the exercise three times a week for eight weeks, 30 minutes per exercise. The calibration orthotic underwear group used it for eight hours a day for eight weeks. The pain inventory was performed by using a visual common occurrence scale, and Cobb's angle was measured using x-ray imaging. Studies have shown that both the Schroth and the orthotic underwear groups experienced a significant decline in Cobb's angle and pain, while the orthotic underwear groups experienced a further reduction of Cobb's angle than the Schroth exercise group. However, there was no difference between the two groups in terms of pain inventory. Based on the results of the studies above, it was found that using orthotic underwear for correction was more effective than the Schroth exercise to restore spinal problems with patients experiencing non-structural Scoliosis. However, since there were fewer samples for this study, further studies and elaboration are required to examine the effectiveness of using orthotic underwear used for calibration.