Randi Ford, 12, who has scoliosis, gets a high-five from Dr. Tony Herring, chief of staff at Scottish Rite Hospital for Children after getting her back brace checked. Debra Brod, who recently ...

Scoliosis is a curvature of the spine that can lead to impingement and back pain. It is very common, though in most cases the curves are small enough that they produce no symptoms and go undiagnosed. ...

Design pioneer 3D Systems unveils the "Bespoke" brace, which aims to change the way back braces fit, function, and feel. Dara Kerr was a senior reporter for CNET covering the on-demand economy and ...

Scoliosis (curvature of the spine) affects three or four per thousand children and as many as seven out of ten older adults. While there is still controversy about the efficacy of back braces for ...

Although many people are familiar with scoliosis as a disease affecting school-aged adolescents, it can and does affect adults, too, even if they didn't have it as a child. The disease in adolescents ...

Scoliosis is a condition that often runs in families, though the cause of the malformation remains unknown. Many schools and pediatricians screen for the condition, which often begins in childhood.

June is National Scoliosis Awareness Month, and Brain and Spine Surgeons of New York, or BSSNY, is using the occasion to highlight the condition and bring attention to ultramodern nonsurgical and ...

On her 12th birthday in February, Marissa Levy of Oceanside, N.Y., received an unusual gift: a test that told her spine doctor she could give up her body brace. In summer 2009, after screening by the ...

Ten-year-old Sindhu* went for a routine medical check-up soon after her family moved from Bengaluru to San Francisco. As part of a series of tests that are administered as a matter of routine to ...

Today’s surgeons can nick out your gallbladder via your belly button and excise your thyroid gland without cutting your neck. Now some doctors have added one of recent history’s most grueling ...