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Scoliosis: What treatments may lie ahead?

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Marjorie Freund | 1:33 p.m. June 11, 2009
I think it's amazing what they are finding out about scoliosis and the new treatments. I believe strongly in the genetic helps for it also, as I had a fusion of 12 vertebrae when I was 12, 41years ago, both my sisters also had scoliosis, one badly enough for surgery, but refused to have it; the other just wore a brace.
It may be long recovery and complicated but not nearly like it used to be. I had the Milwaukee brace for nine months, then body casts for 4 months, the surgery (at Primary Childrens), three months in bed, then six more months in a plastic brace. Back then, we had to wear the Milwaukee brace for 23 hours per day, had our choice of how to use the 1 hour per day. Good luck to the researchers!

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X-ray of Lily Clark's back shows the curvature of her spine before she was put in a brace, which may stop the curve from worsening.

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