Scoliosis in Growing Adolescents

Illustration essay Scoliosis in Growing Adolescents My summer physical before I started the fifth grade turned bad when my physician took my mother into another room. The bad news was all of a sudden I had a moderate case of scoliosis; which is the second stage of scoliosis. Scoliosis is genetic, but there was no history of it in my family. Little did I know how much this was going to affect my life in …

…people don’t respond to bracing and require surgery. As in my situation if I weren’t to have surgery I would have had more serious problems. It is important to have children checked for scoliosis. Since their bodies are still growing the problem can be corrected if needed. Once the body stops growing scoliosis can’t be corrected except to have surgery. That is if the curvature is bad and will cause other problems.