Re: Scoliosis treatment

> Medical treatment of choice for painful scoliosis (curvature of the
> spine) in adults is surgery.  However, here's some statistics reported
> on the subject in the JOURNAL OF BONE & JOINT SURGERY, Vol 69-A95 in a
> study of forty people at one medical center who received this surgery:
>    - 40% had minor complications
>    - 10% had major complications
>    - one of the 40 died from the surgery
>    - not one patient became pain free
>    - not one patient had any improvement in pulmonary (breathing)
>    function (decreased breathing capacity is another reason to do
>    surgery for scoliosis)
> This study replicates many other, yet surgery remains the treatment of
> choice in the medical community.  Go figure.

Well, this is no surprise to me.  I have been a Radiology CT Tech for 12
years and still have to bite my tongue every time a patient is found to have
ANY sort of back or neck problem and an orthopod gets involved.  Many times I
have wanted to just blurt out " No!!! Go see a chiroprator first!!"

This really is from both professional and personal experience because my
youngest sister has a s curve scoliosis and at age 12 they wanted to do the
harrington rod thing but she refused.  She is now 31 and has live a very
happy life and has been as pain free as any other person.  But what is really
important is the level of pain can and does vary from patient to patient.  My
feeling is that if you can tolerate the pain, if it is not too severe, then
NEVER accept the knife.  Once they cut then all other treatments are too
little, too late.

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