Digital photograph De Mauroy Jean Claude
Full name de Mauroy de Curiere de Castelnau, Jean Claude
Profession Medical Doctor, Specialist in
  • Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine
  • Biomechanics of the musculoskeletal system
  • Electromyography
  • Osteopathy and manual medicine
  • Sports Medicine
Actual professional positions Head of Orthopaedic Medicine Department – Clinique du Parc - Lyon
Short biographical notes (300 words) In 1973, Dr. de Mauroy was still a medicine student at the Centre des Massues, world famous for scoliosis treatment. He met Dr. Stagnara who entrusted him his thesis on infantile scoliosis. MD in 1975, he became head of a department of 36 beds for children.
He will create with Dr. Stagnara the Outpatient and Documentation department of the Centre des Massues. When Dr. Stagnara retiring, he created with his successor Dr Picault, the Lyon Spine Center at the Clinique du Parc.
Dr. de Mauroy teaches as a lecturer at the University Claude Bernard, Lyon 1
  • Faculty of Medicine,
  • Faculty of Pharmacy,
  • Institute of Rehabilitation,
  • Polytechnic Institute,
Dr de Mauroy is President of the SIRER (International Society of Spine Research) and President elect of the SOSORT.
Award received (Year, title of the scientific work, awarding institution) SOSORT 2010 – award for "Historical Lyonaise brace treatment for adolescent hyperkyphosis. Results of 272 cases reviewed 2 years minimum after removal of the brace"
Medline published papers (number) 10
Book chapters 20
Book 2
Rééducation des Scolioses (with P Stagnara & G Mollon)
1978, pp152, ISBN 2-7046-1331-1
La scoliose – Traitement orthopédique conservateur. 1996
ISBN 2-84023-119-0
5 most important Medline papers (copy and paste reference from Medline) Stagnara P, De Mauroy JC, Dran G, Gonon GP, Costanzo G, Dimnet J, Pasquet A. Reciprocal angulation of vertebral bodies in a sagittal plane: approach to references for the evaluation of kyphosis and lordosis.Spine (Phila Pa 1976). 1982 Jul-Aug;7(4):335-42. PMID: 7135066

de Mauroy JC, Lecante C, Barral F, Daureu D, Gualerzi S, Gagliano R. The Lyon brace. Disabil Rehabil Assist Technol. 2008 May;3(3):139-45. Review. PMID: 18465397

de Mauroy JC. Idiopathic scoliosis and chaos. Stud Health Technol Inform. 2008;135:53-7. PMID: 18401080

7th SOSORT consensus paper: conservative treatment of idiopathic & Scheuermann's kyphosis. de Mauroy J, Weiss H, Aulisa A, Aulisa L, Brox J, Durmala J, Fusco C, Grivas T, Hermus J, Kotwicki T, Le Blay G, Lebel A, Marcotte L, Negrini S, Neuhaus L, Neuhaus T, Pizzetti P, Revzina L, Torres B, Van Loon P, Vasiliadis E, Villagrasa M, Werkman M, Wernicka M, Wong M, Zaina F. Scoliosis. 2010 May 30;5:9. PMID: 20509962

de Mauroy JC, Lecante C, Barral F. "Brace Technology" Thematic Series - The Lyon approach to the conservative treatment of scoliosis Scoliosis. 2011 Mar 20;6:4.
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