"He called my parents later that night and said, 'She has severe scoliosis ... She is recovering from surgery and helping other kids in their scoliosis journey. "She's always the one leading ...

The Department of Health has offered families of children with severe paediatric spinal conditions such as scoliosis the ...

To encourage your child's quality lifestyle, you should always manage their problems and address the condition.

The number of children with scoliosis needing spinal surgery on the active waiting list for longer than four months by the end of this year will fall to 20- down from 86 at the start of the 2024 ...

A woman who as a child had to wait five years for scoliosis surgery while her spinal curvature deteriorated from 30 to 135 degrees has been left ­devastated after again being told she is too late ...

Scoliosis surgery generally requires students to miss 3-4 weeks of school and they need to take 3 months off activities, ...

If you fall into this group, your doctor will usually recommend corrective scoliosis surgery. According to the American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS), surgery in children may be ...

A 12-year-old boy's fearing his chance for life-altering spinal surgery had been dashed ... I was open to that because Darragh's scoliosis is so severe that I am willing to travel as he needs ...

It is a devastating setback for Lamis and her family, who had spent months trying to escape the war in Gaza to get medical help. Their story was mentioned in BBC coverage of a wider evacuation in July ...

A flexible tether to straighten the spine For children with severe spinal curvature due to scoliosis, the standard treatment has long been surgery to attach a metal rod to the vertebrae.

A moderate scoliosis curve is between 25 and 40 degrees, while a severe curve is more than 50 degrees. His mother said travelling abroad for the surgery is far from ideal, especially if not all ...