International Society On Scoliosis Orthopaedic and Rehabilitation Treatment (SOSORT)

SOSORT is a non-profit organization formed in 2005 to meet specific unmet needs within the professional and patient communities.

• Believes that prevention and conservative management can be effective, efficient, and valuable tools for the management of scoliosis and other spinal deformities.

• Promotes an open forum for the exchange of knowledge and ideas in the field of conservative management of spinal deformities.

• Stimulates research and clinical studies to determine the value and appropriate use of prevention, early detection, observation, and non-operative treatment of spinal deformities.

• Disseminates evidence-based information and guidelines among the scientific community and the general population concerning the conservative management of spinal deformities.

• Provides specific education and training to healthcare professionals in order to build a geographically- and professionally- diverse community of specialists to provide high-quality, non-operative patient care.

• Their primary venue for education is the SOSORT Annual Meeting which combines Scientific, Education and Consensus sessions.

• Primary to their practice and educational goals is the production and continuous updating of a number of treatment guidelines and consensus papers (for example, 2016 SOSORT guidelines: Orthopaedic and rehabilitation treatment of idiopathic scoliosis during growth. Scoliosis Spinal Disord. 2018 Jan 10;13:3.