An adolescent with scoliosis is refusing to wear the prescribed body brace. Which instruction is best to progress the adolescent to the treatment goals?

It is very important to wear the brace now to alleviate the allignment of your spine, percluding the need for an operation and decreasing your symptoms.

Explanation:

Scoliosis is an abnormal curvature of the spine in the sideways or coronal plane looking more like "S" or "C" than a straight line.

Scoliosis usually is treated with a brace, as early and intensive bracing is believed to improve the spinal alignment and preclude the need for an operation in most instances thus decreasing the symptoms.

Hence the best instruction to progress the adolescent to the treatment goals will be " It is important to wear the brace now to improve your spinal alignment, decreasing your symptoms".