Paper Title
Biomechanical Principles of Spinal Correction Applied to The Ergonomic Brace: A New Brace Design for Treating Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis

Abstract
The Ergonomic Brace is a newly designed spinal brace, which addresses the equal importance of treatment effectiveness with hard braces and patient compliance with soft braces. The design integrates both hard and soft components to form one single brace. Rigid pads on the Ergonomic Brace primarily exert corrective forces onto the scoliotic spine, and are customized in accordance with the spinal curvature of patients. The position and vector orientation of the rigid pads are based on the SOSORT consensus paper on brace action for TLSO biomechanics of correction and the Rigo classification. A framework of the biomechanical principles for spinal correction is thus constructed for the Ergonomic Brace with high validity. Keywords—adolescent idiopathic scoliosis, spinal brace, biomechanical principles, spinal correction