Adult Scoliosis

Adults who don’t carry scoliosis over from their childhood usually suffer from it for different reasons. Even though well over 85% off all cases have completely unknown causes, there are a few things why they might get it but one reason for adults to suffer from adult scoliosis is because of a degenerate bone disorder. Since adults have completely finished growing, they face a different set of problems than children do. Both the causes and treatments...

 

Arthrogryposis Scoliosis

As you probably know, scoliosis is an abnormal bend in the spine that can be seen from looking at the back of a person. Many people who suffer from scoliosis do not need any kind of treatment, and others need nothing more than to use a brace to straighten or support the spine for a while. For these people all that is really needed is an occasional check-up at the doctors to be sure that nothing is making it worse. For a few people though, surgery...

 

Scoliosis Brace

Scoliosis is a bend in the spine that is visible when you look at a person from behind. People with it often have one shoulder that appears to be higher than the other and easier to see, or hips that are not even, or they just lean to one side or the other. Even though it is somewhat simple to diagnose, the causes of it are not always clear. In fact, for 85% of the people who have it, the cause is unknown. There are several things that can be done...

 

Scoliosis Exercises

Scoliosis is, to simply put it, an abnormal curve in the back that causes the normal straight line that you would see from behind to bend. As a result, you can tell when someone has scoliosis by looking at their back and seeing the actual curve of their spine. Scoliosis exercises are often used to prevent the worsening of scoliosis in both children and adults. The two most common treatments for scoliosis are surgeries and using braces. Surgeries are...

 

Scoliosis Surgery

Scoliosis is basically a bend in the spine that can be seen when you look at somebody from behind. For most people, scoliosis surgery is not required, or even recommended, but there are a few bad cases in which it is. There are very few cases were doctors will recommend that you take a step as serious as surgery. When they do it is generally because the curve of your spine has already reached about 40 degrees or more, and sometimes because it is close...

 

Scoliosis Treatments

Scoliosis is a disease that actually causes a bend in the back. There are treatments for scoliosis, but they are not always needed. Normally, a person’s back is supposed to be straight when you look at it from behind, and in an S shape when you look from the side, with the upper part bowed out, and the lower part dipped inwards. With scoliosis however, your back also has a curve or two when you look at it from the back. When you have scoliosis,...

 

Symptoms of Scoliosis

Scoliosis is quite literally an abnormal curve in the spine. In most cases, nothing more than maybe a brace and some exercise needs to be done, but every now and then there is a case that needs surgery, or a combination of treatments to stop and even reverse the effects. When you look at a normally formed back from behind the person, you should be able to see that the spine is strait. When you look at it from the side, a spine should form an S shape...

 

What Causes Scoliosis

Scoliosis is basically a curve in the spine that can be seen by looking at somebody from behind and what causes scoliosis isn’t always clear. With a normal spine, when you look at the back of a person, you will see that it is completely strait, or at least very close to being so. If you look at the spine from the side though, it is in the shape if an S. the top of the spine is normally bowed outwards while the lower part of the spine is curved into...

 

Scoliosis

Scoliosis is a disease that doctors do not yet have an explanation for other than the fact that it runs in the family. More often than not, it is girls that suffer from severe scoliosis, not boys, and you can tell if a child has scoliosis by looking at them from behind. If they have it they will have extra curves that are not seen in most people. Scoliosis is a genetic disease that affects girls and women more than boys. As you get older, you can...