Don't turn your back on the brace

Don't turn your back on the brace!

Instead, Will drums up support for it -

Wearing a brace for scoliosis protects the spine during the period when you are growing. Once you have reached height maturity, your spine is not as susceptible to further curvature. Although Will was very diligent about wearing his brace, as a male he was told that sometimes a wild card is thrown and the brace just isn't effective. During Will's major growth spurt at 13, his brace could not contain a substantial increase to his curve, placing him at 61 degrees from 31 degrees four years earlier. We are grateful for the brace and believe it prevented Will from having surgery sooner (before he had a chance to grow more in height). Also, the brace became a teaching aid for Will each new school year when he took it off to show his classmates what he was wearing; why he had some limitations (and frustrations), and taught them tolerance of their peers who need orthosis.