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If I'm not completely misunderstanding (which is entirely possible as I've not had time to think about it - I'm actually at work 
) that's interesting, as it would potentially support the supposedly debunked idea that regular assymetric loading (such as the abominably heavy bag I used to carry 2 miles each way from school) would exacerbate any predisposition to development of curvature. It also seems to me it would easily figure into the question of when/why "gravity" takes over and causes curve progression in the absence of other exacerbating factors (eg continued deterioration after skeletal maturity).
Over the years there have been many discussions I recall which have gone along the lines of someone asking could this have caused it, and a load of people saying no, it's been disproved and anyway if it did cause it everyone would get curves, which have been deeply unsatisfying exchanges as it doesn't answer whether there is an interaction of poor biomechanics and predisposition.
I'm actually more or less certain that while diagnosed as adolescent, my curvature was juvenile, as hindsight makes it clear it was not present to a noticeable extent prior to 7 but by the end of my first primary school year was apparent (my auntie used to make clothes for me, but didn't for a long time after having mum complain that she'd made my skirt uneven as it did not hang right - I wore it and the matching blouse to the school disco, and danced to Stand and Deliver in it, which was a very new song at the time
) - also quite abruptly I went from long bodied and slender looking to "short waisted" and having a pooch belly which didn't go away however hard I dieted and however much weight I lost.
However, it was distinctly non-aggressive, as it didn't really change much as far as I can tell through until my later teens, including no significant change during a period in my teens when I grew in excess of 3 inches in a matter of months, but the lie of clothing didn't change and I had no significant posture change or anything else. At that point I was still lightly loaded, just carrying exercise books to and fro much of the time. The heavy loading coincided with another growth spurt, and I did have changes going on, but was told it was normal and that clearly I was stopping growing because when you're nearly stopped it's only the long bones that continue so that was why my legs and arms were getting longer and longer but my body was not. So who knows, it's just as likely all unrelated, but I doubt I'll stop being curious about the coincidences of it.
) that's interesting, as it would potentially support the supposedly debunked idea that regular assymetric loading (such as the abominably heavy bag I used to carry 2 miles each way from school) would exacerbate any predisposition to development of curvature. It also seems to me it would easily figure into the question of when/why "gravity" takes over and causes curve progression in the absence of other exacerbating factors (eg continued deterioration after skeletal maturity).Over the years there have been many discussions I recall which have gone along the lines of someone asking could this have caused it, and a load of people saying no, it's been disproved and anyway if it did cause it everyone would get curves, which have been deeply unsatisfying exchanges as it doesn't answer whether there is an interaction of poor biomechanics and predisposition.
I'm actually more or less certain that while diagnosed as adolescent, my curvature was juvenile, as hindsight makes it clear it was not present to a noticeable extent prior to 7 but by the end of my first primary school year was apparent (my auntie used to make clothes for me, but didn't for a long time after having mum complain that she'd made my skirt uneven as it did not hang right - I wore it and the matching blouse to the school disco, and danced to Stand and Deliver in it, which was a very new song at the time
) - also quite abruptly I went from long bodied and slender looking to "short waisted" and having a pooch belly which didn't go away however hard I dieted and however much weight I lost.However, it was distinctly non-aggressive, as it didn't really change much as far as I can tell through until my later teens, including no significant change during a period in my teens when I grew in excess of 3 inches in a matter of months, but the lie of clothing didn't change and I had no significant posture change or anything else. At that point I was still lightly loaded, just carrying exercise books to and fro much of the time. The heavy loading coincided with another growth spurt, and I did have changes going on, but was told it was normal and that clearly I was stopping growing because when you're nearly stopped it's only the long bones that continue so that was why my legs and arms were getting longer and longer but my body was not. So who knows, it's just as likely all unrelated, but I doubt I'll stop being curious about the coincidences of it.
I wonder why it doesn't, if bone can be remodelled. Any theories as to why not?
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