Imagine a winding road, curving and twisting in unexpected ways. Now picture that same curve within the spine of your child. It’s not an easy image to digest, is it? This is the reality for many parents whose kids are dealing with Idiopathic Adolescent Scoliosis – a condition that causes an abnormal curvature of the…
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Scoliosis in Adults: How to Identify and Treat It
Adult onset scoliosis is also called adult de novo scoliosis. This means that the adult patient is not diagnosed with scoliosis as a child, but rather in adulthood. The prevalence of scoliosis in an adult under the age of 60 is 13% (1). But the prevalence of scoliosis in an adult 65 and over is…