I've been going to a specialist for my scoliosis since I was in 5th grade. I'm now 17 and haven't grown since at least 7th grade. Well last year I went to the specialist for my check up and my top degree was 43. He said if in 10 months it goes to 50 degrees i'd have to have surgery. Well just recently I went in to get it checked and some how it went down to 38 degrees. I haven't done anything differently. And I'm quite certain I haven't grown at all. So what is the cause for this miricale. I'm not complaining oh no I just want to kno how this happened and if i can do something to help my scoliosis more. I've tried the excersise and stretching and physical therapy over the years but none of it helped. well now that i haven't done anything it gets better. plz answer how this is.
2007-03-21 23:32:00 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health ➔ General Health Care ➔ Injuries
the person i went to is a specialist and i had x-rays standing up. he also did other test to see if i could bend properly and measured my back with something while i was touching my toes he already had measurments on the x-rays
2007-03-22 18:54:37 · update #1
i have been going to this person since i was first diagnosed in 5th grade. I had to hold my breath in while i had the x-ray done. I had it standing up this year and last year and the years before. So nothing was changed. Same person measured it as well. So after knowing all those things didn't change. Tell me how did my scoliosis change?
2007-03-26 09:13:06 · update #2
How did they check you? Did they use an x-ray and meausre the Cobb angle, or did they use a clinical method such as an inclinometer. The Cobb method is the standard method and has been shown to be reliable and valid...other methods have not been deemed as such. Therefore, unless they took x-rays to measure it, chances are it is what is called a "measurement error"...in other words, the measurement device or technique may not give consistent results...this may be especially true if you had a different person measuring it this time.
2007-03-22 02:41:18 · answer #1 · answered by mistify 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
As it was stated earlier...everything remaining the same, there could be 5 degree margin of error on measurement. That's just the way it is. You could have same person do measurement on same film and there'd still few degrees off. So generally, 5 degree change is not considered anything.
Also, as I've stated, some scoliosis do get better on it's own because given time, the growth center that is lagging behind, which is the cause of tilting to begin with eventually catches up and could self-correct..but that doesn't happen too often.
As far as your situation goes, if you really did achieve correction..kudos..but as I've stated numerous times, 5 degree is considered no change clinically speaking.
If there's trend of correction really happening, I'd suggest doing Spinecor bracing. You may get a lot of correction given chance. check it out @ http://www.myscoliosis.net
addendum...by the way, if you held your breath in, there's the discrepency...when you inhale, your thoracic spine extends and unwinds a little and could appear to be lesser in degree. Are you sure you held your breath in same amount and in exactly same position in 2 different times? that's impossible..same position is very hard to reproduce...Europeans use different technique...they let patients be in neutral position rather than inhaling in order to prevent such discrepency...
2007-03-26 08:52:30 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Scoliosis will not get better without treatment of some kind. Were your x-rays taken sitting or standing? This can make a large difference. There is usually some 'measurement error' and you should have the same person measure your your curve each time.
2007-03-22 09:05:10 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋