In honor of Scoliosis Awareness Month, Scolios-us was featured in the June edition of Oak Forest Living Magazine. This feature story highlighted our mission and programs and educated the community about the signs of scoliosis to promote early detection. It also featured several kids and teens with scoliosis.

In Episode 50 of The O&P Clinical Care Insiders podcast, our founder Megan Glahn Castille explores the psychosocial impact of scoliosis alongside her colleague and fellow O&P educator, David Speers. Listen to the episode, titled Addressing the Psychosocial Impact of Scoliosis, now!

In the March 2024 edition of The O&P Almanac, our Scolios-us Mentor Program was mentioned as a tip to help encourage brace compliance. The O&P Almanac is a source for industry insight and association news in the orthotic and prosthetic industry, so it is great to see care given to the psychological side of scoliosis treatment. Check it out!

Lilly Tessler was one of our first mentors in our Scolios-us Mentor Program and is now on the Mentor Support Team. In this article, she talks about her experience with scoliosis and how connecting with other Mentor Program has given her so much purpose. Lilly is the epitome of turning lemons into lemonade, and we are so proud of her!

Our founder and president Megan Glahn Castille and her colleague Emily Zeck authored an article titled "Clinician-Led Mental Health Conversations Significantly Associated with Outcomes for Scoliosis Patients" in the European Journal of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine. In this study, they found that mental health is not discussed by healthcare providers as often as patients desire it, and patients' desire to have these conversations is negatively associated with several clinical outcomes. While providers have some work to do, they also found that talking about mental health was positively associated with several clinical outcomes, which is very encouraging.

The study further solidified the need for our work here at Scolios-us. We are dedicated not only to helping kids and teens with scoliosis navigate treatment, but also to helping practitioners address the psychological side of scoliosis.

Four Scolios-us Mentor Program mentors, Molly, Samantha, Caitlyn, and Kate, join our Founder Megan in the newest article in the O&P Edge Magazine - How to Address the Psychological Impact of Scoliosis Bracing. Read the article here!

Our founder Megan was featured on the Baxter Young Orthotics Podcast. She shared her experience finding O&P and then specializing in scoliosis. Here’s a clip of her explaining what led her to specialize. Check out the whole episode on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0iTagupZ7Spu77GKlCxWXe

Author Lisa Owens had the opportunity to write for a local parenting website about her journey with scoliosis & how her book, The Silver-Horned Girl, came to be. Read her article here! She even gave Scolios-us a shoutout in her article!

Our founder Megan had the opportunity to write an article about assessing in-brace x-rays titled "T1 Tilt: The Goldilocks of In-Brace X-Ray Assessment." When Megan is not working behind the scenes of scoliosis, she is working as a scoliosis bracing specialist at Align Clinic. She sees almost exclusively scoliosis and loves finding ways to improve outcomes. Read the article HERE.

Our founder Megan had the honor of being interviewed for the BCM website about her work with Scolios-us. Through her BCM affiliation, she is beginning to combine her clinical love for scoliosis with the research side of it to better the lives of scoliosis patients across the globe. Read the article HERE.

During Scoliosis Awareness Month, we want to raise awareness for scoliosis and support our scoliosis warriors. Supporting these kids needs to be relevant to them. This webinar is an absolute necessity if you are an MD, Physiotherapist, CPO or parent of a child with scoliosis, who wants to know the modern options available to support patients who need to wear a brace. Telling them to ‘just wear it’ is not enough!

"One of the hardest things for those diagnosed with scoliosis is being in a rigid scoliosis brace.  Most of the time, they feel alone, like they are the only one with scoliosis.  In this episode, Megan Glahn, who is a certified orthotist shares with us a way these kids can get connected with a mentor/friend who also has experience with bracing.  Being connected with someone who knows what you are going through is very powerful."

"Scoliosis Awareness and Support: How to Better Support Kids with Bracing presented by Megan Glahn and Lauren Higginson. We know that bracing compliance is one of the major factors that influences brace success in scoliosis conservative treatment. But getting a child or teen to wear their brace despite them knowing the consequences if they don’t, just isn’t that easy."

• 1st Place: Megan E. Glahn, MS, Addressing the Psychological Complexities of Scoliosis Bracing
• 2nd Place: Matt Brown, MD, Patient Reported Knee Function and Stability in Patients with Fibular Deficiency
• 2nd Place: Rochelle A. Dumm, MSPO, Investigating Cranial Skin Surface Thermal Variations of Infants Wearing Cranial Reshaping Helmet (CRH)