Can scoliosis correct itself???

[Jimmy's mom]

HI all!

I am fairly new here...I posted in another section of this forum...a while ago.

Approximately, 6 months ago he was xrayed & diagnosed with a curve of 8 degrees...He just got re-xrayed to reavaluate his scoliosis & he was at a 6 degree angle. Could the scoliosis be correcting itself? Has anyone ever heard of this happening??

Thank you so much for your time!

Tamie

[LindaRacine]

Hi Tamie...

I think I read that the majority of very small curves correct themselves. Anyway, it's almost never anything to worry about. Most texts don't even define curves under 10 degrees as "abnormal." You didn't mention your son's age, but a 10-12 year old child with a curve less than 19 degrees only has a 25% chance of curve progression.

Regards,
Linda

[spincon58]

Hi,

My daughter was diagnosed with a curve of 19 in June, when we went for a follow up in August , the curve was 14...she is 12 years old...there is always that margin of error when measuring the cobbs angle.....My daughter and I are convinced the scoliosis corrected it's self.....but she is still not out of the woods...