Madonna’s Daughter – Lourdes Ciccone Leon
Lourdes Ciccone Leon is the daughter of pop icon Madonna. She helped to design her mom’s “Material Girl” line of clothes for teenage girls and has become a fashion icon in her own right. Lourdes even performs alongside her mother as a backup dancer on her musical tour and is a model and singer too. As a teen, she was spotted wearing the Spinecor brace, a brace often prescribed for scoliosis.
The SpineCor System was designed to treat idiopathic scoliosis for curves greater than 15º but not curves greater than 30º. It is generally not used for non idiopathic scoliosis. The brace is worn for 20 hours per day and must be worn while sleeping. The length of treatment is always a minimum of 18 months with the average for adolescent scoliosis being 24 months. Juvenile scoliosis cases require even longer treatment times.
The Spinecor brace was designed with belts, straps and pads as an alternative to the rigid braces in hopes that there would be better compliance among patients. A 2010 study found compliance among patients using this brace to be the same as traditional more rigid ones. Also, another study conducted in 2008 on the clinical efficacy of the Spinecor brace found the failure rate to be slightly higher than with other traditional braces. the patient.