Surgical intervention in the case of scoliosis has not proven to be rewarding for many patients that have undergone such procedures. This form of correction may provide a certain degree of relief from ... Read More
Scoliosis screening and early detection
Scoliosis affects roughly 4.5 percent of the population, however, many cases go undiagnosed and the real number is thought to be closer to 15-20% of the population. The best way to treat scoliosis is ... Read More
Does Adult Scoliosis Progress and Can It Be Helped?
Adult patients with Idiopathic Scoliosis (ADIS) are generally told that their scoliosis will have stopped progressing when they stopped growing. However there is increasingly more scientific data that ... Read More
Scoliosis and Proper Sleep Habits
Sleeping is essential to our wellbeing. As human beings we spend about 1/3 of our lives sleeping so we might as well be doing it correctly. Our sleep posture can determine our spinal wellness. It may ... Read More
Literature Addressing Surgical Correction of Scoliosis
The majority of the scoliosis cases treated by the Scoliosis Correction Centers are patients for whom bracing has failed and/or who do not want surgery. A significant percentage of the scoliosis cases ... Read More
Recent Scoliosis Research: How the neck affects the back
How the neck affects the back: changes in regional cervical sagittal alignment correlate to HRQOL improvement in adult thoracolumbar deformity patients at 2-year follow-up. J Neurosurg Spine. 2015 ... Read More
Current-Recent Scoliosis Research Information
Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2015 Apr 24;4:CD010663. [Epub ahead of print] Surgical versus non-surgical interventions in people with adolescent idiopathic scoliosis. Bettany-Saltikov J1, Weiss HR, ... Read More
