What Is Scoliosis?
Scoliosis is defined as a partly-fixed lateral curvature of the spine. Its origins may lie in an injury, disease or other identifiable causes, but more than 80% of scoliosis cases are said to be idiopathic or unknown. This does not mean that there is no reason for 80% of cases, scoliosis, but only that the doctors do not know how to find the cause in these particular cases. Although a large part of medical research in the aetiology has been no conclusive evidence for a single event has been documented. Most mainstream scoliosis treatments therefore approach and treatment of symptomatic scoliosis. (more…)