16 Scoliosis World w/ Dr Morningstar: Risk-Based Treatment

Scoliosis World w/ Dr Morningstar

• Historically, scoliosis treatment is based on the curve measurement
• The curve measurement is not the only thing effecting quality of life issues and pain levels
• Given that, why do anything based on the curve measurement alone?
• At ScoliSMART, we treat patients based upon a “risk assessment”
• Example: Younger children with the same degree curve as older children need to have more aggressive treatment because they have more growth ahead of them
• What we see on an x-ray that we call scoliosis is not really the entire condition, It is the end-stage cascade of things going wrong in scoliosis
• We seek lasting-outcomes and to prevent anything from sabotaging that
• We assess biochemical and genomic risk factors
• Treatments are tailored to the individual