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Scoliosis

Scoliosis · Skolióza

What it is

The spine curves and rotates sideways, usually appearing in adolescence.

Symptoms & signs

  • Uneven shoulders or hips
  • rib hump on bending
  • clothes hanging unevenly
  • back pain in adults
  • breathlessness if severe

🚩 Get help if…

  • see a doctor soon Curve getting worse quickly, especially during a growth spurt
  • see a doctor soon Back pain that wakes you at night
  • see a doctor soon Numbness, weakness or bladder changes
  • see a doctor soon Breathlessness with a severe curve

Where it strikes

Medical treatment

  • Observation for small curves
  • bracing 20–40°
  • Schroth physiotherapy
  • spinal fusion or vertebral body tethering over 45–50°

Natural & lifestyle

  • Schroth-method specific exercises (small trials)
  • core strengthening
  • posture awareness
  • swimming

Emerging & experimental

  • Magnetically controlled growing rods

Alternative, off-label & anecdotal

Approaches used outside the guidelines, with what their supporters report and what testing has found so far.

  • Yoga (daily side plank) — a small study reduced curves early / small studies
  • Chiropractic manipulation — trials found no correction of the curve not confirmed in trials

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