by admin | Jan 17, 2015 | Scoliosis Surgery |
Scoliosis is serious. It affects you or your child both physiologically and psychologically. But it is rarely life-threatening, unlike the surgeries to correct spinal deformity. At the ScoliSMART™ clinics, we don’t offer a cure or a quick fix. But we do offer...
by admin | Jan 17, 2015 | Scoliosis Surgery |
The history of scoliosis surgery is full of failure. The first scoliosis surgery in 1865—the year the civil war ended—had terrible results and ended in a lawsuit, Guerin vs. Malgaigne. American doctors first performed scoliosis surgery in 1914. Scoliosis surgery was...
by admin | Jan 17, 2015 | Scoliosis Surgery, Scoliosis Treatment |
Various studies show that surgery is riddled with complications. These risks seem inordinate since surgery does not cure scoliosis, stop its progression or improve functions of the heart and lungs. The following excerpts from various studies fuel our passion for...
by admin | Jan 17, 2015 | Scoliosis Exercises, Scoliosis Surgery |
Although we don’t know the exact causes of idiopathic scoliosis, research does show that miscommunication between the brain and body causes its progression. The postural control centers in the brain should create automatic responses and send out a signal that...
by admin | Jan 17, 2015 | Scoliosis Surgery |
Part of the dilemma is that non-surgical scoliosis treatment information is not readily available. As a result, you may feel like surgery is a bad idea yet think there are no other options. The ScoliSMART™ doctors want you to know that both children and adults have...
by admin | Jan 17, 2015 | Scoliosis Surgery |
Scoliosis surgery is not medically necessary in the vast majority of cases. Scoliosis is only life threatening if a child younger than five years old has severe spinal deformation. When the lungs are not fully developed, there is a rare possibility that scoliosis...
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