The treatment of postural scoliosisimplies a comprehensive programme, including attention to the general health, habits, and exercises out of doors and in the gymnasium, clothing, etc.
The development ofscoliosis is always slow and insidious.
The most common form of scoliosis met with in adolescents is a primary thoracic curvature with its convexity to the right (Fig.
Scoliosis that depends upon inequality in the length of the limbs or tilting of the pelvis, disappears on sitting.
Unilateral paralysis of muscles acting on the trunk may also cause a lateral deviation of the spine, as is well seen in paralysis of the trapezius, which results in a cervical scoliosis with the convexity to the non-paralysed side.
Scoliosis is the usual type of spinal curvature, and in extreme cases it may lead to a pronounced form of hump-back.
In long-standing cases the pain and discomfort may lead to a postural scoliosis (ischias-scoliotica).
Scoliosis may be a cervicodorsal, dorsolumbar, or lumbosacral curve, and the inclination of the vertebral column may be to the right or left.
Thus the causes of both kyphosis and scoliosis are amply furnished, and complications of the two are quite frequent, and the deformities resulting therefrom quite formidable.
Scoliosis is mostly to the left; kyphosis generally complicated with lordosis, and sometimes the vertebral column exhibits a spiral shape.
The scoliosis was not permanent, the deformation of the foot could be overcome, and at the same time we failed to convince ourselves of the presence of nystagmus and the absence of the knee-jerks.
Slight scoliosis of the vertebral column and a misshapen right foot recalled Friedreich's ataxia.
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