The experience of brace treatment in children/adolescents with scoliosis.

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Published in Scoliosis on May 22, 2006

Authors

Despina Sapountzi-Krepia1, Maria Psychogiou, Darin Peterson, Vassiliki Zafiri, Eugenia Iordanopoulou, Fotini Michailidou, Anastassios Christodoulou

Author Affiliations

1: Nursing Department, Technological Educational Institute of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece. psychogiou@hotmail.com

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