Scoliosis is a lateral (sideways) curvature of the spine. Scoliosis
screening is routinely done in junior high school/middle school,
and many early cases are detected that previously would have gone
unrecognized until they were more advanced.
Review Date: 03/10/2011
Reviewed By: Harvey Simon, MD, Editor-in-Chief, Associate Professor of Medicine,
Harvard Medical School; Physician, Massachusetts General Hospital.
A.D.A.M., Inc. is accredited by URAC, also known as the American Accreditation HealthCare Commission (www.urac.org)
