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Scoliosis Surgery: Step by Step through Treatment

Are you or your child facing scoliosis surgery? If so, you are not alone! Thousands of adults and children around the world undergo spine surgery to treat scoliosis each year. The reasons an adult undergoes scoliosis surgery may differ from a child. Most adults are treated for pain related to the scoliosis and deformity progression. Sometimes neurological deficits accompany adult scoliosis and require treatment. On the other hand, children are treated for progressive curves more than 40-degrees (for idiopathic scoliosis). Common to both adults and children is the goal of surgery: to avoid or stop pulmonary (lung) disease caused by severe thoracic (ribbed spine) curvature and to correct disfiguring spinal deformity.

To learn more about scoliosis surgery and what may be involved, please click on the links below.

Your Scoliosis Surgery: What You Should Know

Scoliosis Surgery: Goals and Considerations

Scoliosis Curve Considerations

Degenerative Conditions and Crankshaft Phenomenon

Scoliosis: A Three-Dimensional Problem

Flatback Syndrome (Kyphosis)

Scoliosis Surgery: Approaches and Procedures

Spinal Fusion

Anterior (Front) Approach and Video-Assisted Thoracoscopic Surgery (VATS)

Scoliosis Rib Hump and Curve Correction

Surgically Treating Kyphosis