Imagine feeling restricted, all day and all night, and not being able bend down. That is what wearing a scoliosis brace feels like. Scoliosis is the abnormal curving of the spine. It not only affects ...

Randi Ford, 12, who has scoliosis, gets a high-five from Dr. Tony Herring, chief of staff at Scottish Rite Hospital for Children after getting her back brace checked. Debra Brod, who recently ...

Design pioneer 3D Systems unveils the "Bespoke" brace, which aims to change the way back braces fit, function, and feel. Dara Kerr was a senior reporter for CNET covering the on-demand economy and ...

Although many people are familiar with scoliosis as a disease affecting school-aged adolescents, it can and does affect adults, too, even if they didn't have it as a child. The disease in adolescents ...

Scoliosis (curvature of the spine) affects three or four per thousand children and as many as seven out of ten older adults. While there is still controversy about the efficacy of back braces for ...

June is National Scoliosis Awareness Month, and Brain and Spine Surgeons of New York, or BSSNY, is using the occasion to highlight the condition and bring attention to ultramodern nonsurgical and ...

Dr. Tyler Meier in his Newport Beach office. Dr. Tyler Meier and CorePosture Chiropractic provide non-surgical scoliosis correction with custom 3D ScoliBrace in Newport Beach. ScoliBrace has been a ...

Screening for scoliosis – a curvature of the spine – is very important for early intervention and prevention of long-term problems. Idiopathic adolescent scoliosis is a structural scoliosis. It has ...

Scoliosis is a condition that often runs in families, though the cause of the malformation remains unknown. Many schools and pediatricians screen for the condition, which often begins in childhood.

CEBU, Philippines - Dr. Anthony Fong - an accredited SpineCor (UK) Pediatric & Adult Scoliosis Consultant was the keynote speaker at an event titled "Scoliosis: The Biggest Dilemma," at the Summit ...

While scoliosis in children rarely causes symptoms other than cosmetic ones, the situation is quite different in adults, who are 10 times as likely as adolescents to require corrective surgery, Berven ...

On her 12th birthday in February, Marissa Levy of Oceanside, N.Y., received an unusual gift: a test that told her spine doctor she could give up her body brace. In summer 2009, after screening by the ...