Treatment involves back braces, rest, exercise, and sometimes medications or hospital care.

Treatments differ by disease, but sometimes they include back braces and surgery.

Mark wore back braces, walked stiffly and stayed in bed a lot.

She was also required to wear back braces.

Depending on the severity of the condition, some adolescents may need back braces while their bones mature.

Back braces, especially the Boston brace, puts a great deal of pressure on the abdomen and can make digestion uncomfortable.

Back braces don't actually help protect your back other than reminding you to not bend with your back.

Back braces can control moderate deformities.

Common back braces include:

For less extreme cases, manual medicine, physical therapy and/or back braces can help reverse or stop the kyphosis before it does become severe.

Treatment for scoliosis includes back braces, and in more severe cases, surgery that involves joining the vertebrae together permanently (spinal fusion).

The Second Squadron also carried short steel bars on their back braces, used when lifting bridge sections, indicating that they were bridge builders.

Back braces are also commonly prescribed to treat adolescent idiopathic scoliosis, as they may stop the progression of spinal curvature in a growing child/adolescent.

The 35-year-old lawyer, who suffers from rheumatoid arthritis and wears knee and back braces, prefers the bus over the subway because she has difficulty walking down stairs.

Once the students, not without glee, watched him celebrating the sacrament with the ends of his back braces protruding out of the top of his vestment.

Ms. Babcock hurried to the 22-year-old woman's aid last July, hindered by leg and back braces but armed with "a good old hickory stick," she said in a telephone interview.

They represented a readership far less likely to have come across, say, the annual men's-magazine features about mangled knees, wayward fingers, and back braces, which had hardened almost into a sportswriting trope.