Kylie, a 12-year-old softball standout from St. Louis, champions scoliosis screenings after successful brace treatment at Shriners Children’s St. Louis.

Scoliosis is a spinal condition that occurs when there is an abnormal curve of the spine. Often, scoliosis cases are mild and do not need extensive treatment, but there are very severe cases that ...

Congenital scoliosis is defined as either a failure of formation or a failure of segmentation of a portion of the spine. This results in mis-shapen or fused bones that can develop into a scoliosis.

Scoliosis can cause upper or lower back pain in some people, although the pain is typically mild. In many cases, the pain may be due to an underlying issue, such as degenerative disk disease.

People who require a corrective rod to straighten their spine for severe scoliosis may not be able to get an epidural when they give birth On Tuesday, Princess Eugenie shared the exciting news that ...

LITTLETON - This is the time of year when many schools will conduct scoliosis checks on students. Despite positive diagnoses being rare, roughly 3 million new cases are discovered each year, according ...

THE voices of families will be at the centre of the statutory inquiry into scoliosis and spina bifida services in our children’s hospitals, the Coalition has promised. It comes as the Government ...

Scoliosis is a structural condition where the spine curves sideways in an abnormal way. A healthy spine has its natural front-to-back curves, but with scoliosis, the whole column shifts to one side, ...

A doctor measures a patient’s spine using a pedi-scoliometer, which shows the curvature of the spine in degrees, for scoliosis. — Handout Scoliosis is a condition where a patient’s spine exhibits an ...

Scoliosis is the medical term for a sideways curvature of the spine. Spinal fusion surgery (SFS) for scoliosis fuses two or more vertebrae together to help straighten the spine and prevent the ...

Two University of Iowa Health Care scoliosis patients donated 280 stuffed “Higgy Bears” to their care team after raising thousands of dollars through a national charitable initiative. Meredith and ...