Currently patients diagnosed with scoliosis are either monitored for progression, treated with a brace, or, in severe cases, offered surgery. People with scoliosis, abnormal lateral curvature of the ...

Teens with curved spines from scoliosis can improve their pain, severity of curvature and quality of life by adding specialized physical therapy exercises, a small Canadian randomized trial shows.

The spine has a natural front-to-back curve. But about 2% of children and adolescents worldwide have an abnormal sideways S- or C-shaped curve of the spine, known as scoliosis. So, how can you tell if ...

Correspondence to Rohit Malyala, Faculty of Health Sciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON L8S 4L8, Canada; rohitml2013{at}gmail.com Growing up I had never given much thought to occasional back ...