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Scoliosis Deserves Special Consideration
The chronic pain from scoliosis deserves special consideration. This skeletal deformity of the spine can be obvious or obscure. Either way, scoliosis can cause a pain in the neck, mid-back, or low back. What exactly is scoliosis? In technical terms, scoliosis is a lateral curvature of the spine occurring in the coronal plane.
What the heck does that mean?
If you look at a normal spine from the back, the spine lines up, like an "I", straight from head to tail. If you look at a spine with scoliosi...
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Expert & Community Posts
Ask the Expert – 3/3/08 - #2. Scoliosis from a spinal injury?
By John Claude Krusz, PhD, MD , Health Expert...can leave a person with a predisposition to develop scoliosis. Many scoliosis problems can be... Read more »
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Health Guide
Scoliosis
Scoliosis is a curvingof the spine. The spine curves away from the middle or sideways. Alternative Names Spinal curvature; Kyphoscoliosis Causes, incidence, and... Read more »Scoliosis
...curvature; Kyphoscoliosis Prevention Read more »Scoliosis: Resources
www.scoliosis.org -- National Scoliosis Foundationwww.srs.org -- Scoliosis Research Societywww.scoliosis-assoc.org - - Scoliosis Associationwww.aaos.org -- American Academy of Orthopaedic... Read more »Scoliosis: resources
...Names Resources - scoliosis Read more »Scoliosis: Causes
CausesIn 80% of patients, the cause of scoliosis is unknown. Such cases are called idiopathic scoliosis. (Idiopathic means without a known cause.) Idiopathic scoliosismay be due to multiple, poorly... Read more »Images
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