**Meet the editors**

Dr. Bettany-Saltikov qualified as a physiotherapist in 1986 and is now an active researcher, writer, and senior lecturer. She has been working in the field of spinal deformities and postural disorders for over 30 years and has written many papers in this area, in various orthopedic journals. She has presented her studies extensively all over the world. She is heavily involved in both super-

vising and teaching doctoral students (both PhDs and professional doctorates) and is a manuscript reviewer for a number of journals. She is a grant reviewer for a number of national and international societies such as the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR), Health Technology Assessment Programme, the Dutch Arthritis Society, as well as the Hong Kong and South African research councils. She is very passionate about developing the underpinning objective and evidence-based research demonstrating the effectiveness of physiotherapy approaches in this area. She sincerely hopes that empowering service users (patients, parents, clinicians and researchers) with the best evidence-based knowledge available will enable all involved in this area to both provide and access best practice.

Dr. Schreiber is a researcher and clinician. She completed a PhD degree in Rehabilitation Science and a postdoctoral work in health outcomes research and knowledge synthesis methods in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Alberta, Canada. She is a certified Schroth scoliosis therapist and international regional Schroth instructor. Dr. Schreiber devoted much of her life to

helping children and adults with spinal deformities through her research studies and clinical practice. Her work provided important evidence about the effectiveness of the Schroth exercises for adolescents with idiopathic scoliosis. Currently, she runs her private practice for conservative management of spinal deformities and is appointed as an adjunct assistant professor at the University of Alberta.
