AIS Non Surgical Studies

Many people all around the world may come across symptoms of having scoliosis. Mostly girls from ages 10 to 16 get a curve of about 10 degrees. Scoliosis is the curvature of the spine and mostly occurs in adolescent years. Scoliosis may be identified during a physical examination by bending forward to see if your back is completely straight and if your shoulder blades are balanced. During my research process i found out that a lot of people at my school have scoliosis.

The good news is that I am done growing, which means I will stop wearing the scoliosis brace. This is a great relief to me, as the brace I wear 16 hours per day, is like a plastic corset, extremely uncomfortable and confining. The bad news is that my spinal curve has increased yet again. Now, at a 43 degree curve, I meet with a pediatric spinal surgeon. The doctor suggests I wait six more months as he monitors my advancing curve closely, and then the consideration of a spinal fusion is the next step. The fusion is a major surgery where they place two titanium rods in the upper thoracic region of my spine and fuse the affected

To try to arrest the curve, I started to wear a brace for 20 hours a day. Every day. Terribly distracting and uncomfortable to deal with at school. To sit. To go to gym. It was a real challenge. Scoliosis also effectively ended my successful competitive high school baseball career – a level which I strived so hard to attain. I played baseball four seasons a year, practicing nearly every day so I would be able to one-day

Once doctors have diagnosed a patient with scoliosis and have determined the severity, they will begin treatment. There are three main categories of treatment: observation, bracing, and surgery (Davis, 2017). Nonstructural scoliosis can be treated with indirect treatment of the spine. An example of this may be putting a wedge in the shoe of a patient in hopes of evening their leg length, thus causing the spine to correct itself. The majority of people with structural scoliosis, which is incurable, will need surgery in order to lessen the curvature of their spine since observation and bracing is usually insufficient (Davis,

Hi my name is Dr. Allen and I am from the Pediatric Orthopedic Department. Today I want educate you on the most common diseases and conditions that we see here in this department. Our first condition we will discuss is Kyphosis (curvature of the spine). Kyphosis (curvature of the spine) is a condition in which the curve in the spine is measuring 50 degrees or greater. Kyphosis (curvature of the spine) can be congenital (present at birth) or it can be something that develops later in life. If a child is not born with the curvature in the spine, the cause of Kyphosis (curvature of the spine), can be a number of things ranging from Spina bifida (split spine), Osteogenesis

Chiropractic treatment is one of the best healthcare options for patients with spine related problems.

Passive segmental mobilization and press-up exercises are common methods used to increase extension in the spine. Both treatments have been proven effective in decreasing pain,

My father suffers from a condition known as scheuermann's kyphosis. It is a type of disease in which joints in the vertebrae do not grow correctly and evenly, resulting in my father having an exaggerated arched and hunched back. Aside from

recommended future care plan consists of manipulation of 1-2 areas of the spine, Cox flexion-distraction technique, progressive therapeutic exercise and hot packs along with chiropractic adjustments once a week for six weeks.

The person posture I will be discussing is using a laptop. The laptop is located on their lap, with the screen about 8 inches from the face. The person I’m observing is also sitting in a chair with a flexible back and a headrest. Even though there is a large backrest, the person is hunched over towards the computer screen. This created a huge curvature in the back, especially in the thoracic region. There is a greater kyphosis curvature within the thoracic region also affects the other regions of the spine. The lumbar spine seems to have a less lordosis curvature as this person is hunching over to look at the computer screen. The cervical have more a greater lordosis curvature compared to a normal sitting posture. The person is sitting

Some potential treatments for SMA are for the patient to wear a brace until surgery. They get their spine surgically straightened.

Scoliosis is a disease that affects the spine. There are many people that have spine problems, but with scoliosis a person will have a curved spine. Studies show that it is more common to diagnose someone in their younger years. Scoliosis usually occurs in the thoracic area and the lumbar region. Doctors will look at specific criteria to diagnose a patient and move onto possible treatments.

Scoliosis is described as an abnormal curvature of the spine in a sideways direction. The condition can be categorized as either a “C” curve or an “S” curve. Now, I have an “S” curve which means my spine has two curves, one to the left and one to the right, each different from the other. I first became diagnosed with this condition when I was

Depending on the severity of the curvature, different treatment methods are implemented to attack this abnormality of the spine. Although the effectiveness of using plastic back braces to deter the curvature is still to be determined, doctors still generally use this method for smaller curves. In recent years, doctors have been employing a minimally invasive surgical approach for larger curves, one that requires surgeons to only make a few small incisions along the spine, rather than the traditional two-foot incision along the spine. This technique is by far the most radical treatment since the first scoliosis surgery took place in the early 1900s.

Scoliosis is a complex deformity or curvature of the spine and entire torso and has been recognized clinically for centuries (Asher, Marc A.). “For a few of the patients an underlying cause can be determined, including congenital changes, secondary changes related to neuropathic or myopathic conditions, or later in life from degenerative spondylosis. However, the cause of most scoliosis is not known and since about 1922 such patients have been diagnosed as having idiopathic scoliosis (Asher, Marc A.).”