Authors Year n ∅ corr ∅ Cobb Sign. Hopf & Heine [8] 1985 52 41% 36° ns Rigo et al. [29] 2002 105 31% 37° p< 0.01 Rigo [30] 2007 32 42% 33° ns Weiss et al. [3] 2007 81 51% 36° ns Maruyama et al. [28] 2012 54 36% 37° p< 0.05 Weiss & Werkmann [31] 2012 34 59% 31° ns Borysov & Borysov   92 56% 29°

Table 2: Papers on the Chêneau brace treatment of patients with Adolescent IdiopathicScoliosis as can be found in Pub Med and the journal‚ Scoliosis’ wherethe average in-brace correction (∅ corr) is documented (∅ corr and ∅ Cobb anglehave been rounded). Statistical analysis revealed significant differences of the inbracecorrection achieved when the results from our sample (Borysov et al.) werecompared to [28] and [29] (t = 2.4 and 3.64 respectively in a statistical test to comparetwo different proportions).