The duo at Ochsner Children's work with patients with varying degrees of scoliosis, a curving of the spine. Here's the story.

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Treating curvature of the spine as an adult often involves pain relief medications, exercise, or spinal injections to soothe symptoms. Surgery may only be necessary for adults with severe curvature or ...

Spinal deformities in children may be the result of many conditions, such as congenital malformation of the spinal column, disorders of the neuromuscular system or trauma. They may be progressive in ...

Proximal junctional kyphosis (PJK) is the uninvited guest who shows up in too many adult spinal deformity surgeries.