The proceedings from the 2016 conference on conservative scoliosis treatment (SOSORT Society) recently came out. https://scoliosisjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13013-017-0124-0 Some of t...Read More
When you go see your orthopedic surgeon and ask him/her whether exercise-based treatment might be an option for you – they will almost always respond that there is no evidence that exercises hav...Read More
This is a very controversial question. Any orthopedic surgeon will say that yes, of course it does – on the average. But in fact the research literature seems to be undecided on the point. It is...Read More
As mentioned elsewhere my wife suffers from scoliosis. Though her curves are quite severe (45/55) she has tried to avoid surgery and has so far been successful. However, she has had x-rays taken of he...Read More
As has been reported elsewhere – see http://188.166.165.133/scoliosis-is-partly-genetic/ – scoliosis is at least partly genetic, so it is to be expected that genetic tests can be developed...Read More
There was a lot of excitement in the scoliosis community last year when this news came out: “A single yoga pose each day may improve spine curvature for scoliosis patients”. The news was...Read More
We have two daughters who still have not entered puberty. Due to their mother’s scoliosis and the proven hereditary nature of scoliosis, we are naturally very concerned that one or both of them ...Read More
A few years ago a scientific study showed beyond doubt that adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS) – the non-congenital form of scoliosis – is part inherited from the parents. Several studi...Read More
This is new research related to scoliosis, just published here: Fasting total ghrelin levels are increased in patients with AIS When the stomach is empty, ghrelin is produced by the body. Ghrelin acts...Read More