Hi Evelyn,
I re-read your post and think that your height is less than your arm span due to your curvature, not an underlying situation of arm span being longer than a straight spine. The numbers probably would not work out. (see below)
Marfans, for example, is associated with an arm span that is > 1.05 times height. But now I am wondering if that is due to the prevalence of scoliosis and that shortening the height of this folks. Maybe no Marfans person would have a longer arm span than their height absent the curvature. But to crunch the numbers for a non-scoliotic person, if they were 5' 2", if their arm span was > 1.05 times that then their arm span would be > 5' 5"+. That is well beyond where you likely are even without a curve I think.
Anyway, depending on how much correction you get, I think you will end up being taller than your arm span.
I re-read your post and think that your height is less than your arm span due to your curvature, not an underlying situation of arm span being longer than a straight spine. The numbers probably would not work out. (see below)
Marfans, for example, is associated with an arm span that is > 1.05 times height. But now I am wondering if that is due to the prevalence of scoliosis and that shortening the height of this folks. Maybe no Marfans person would have a longer arm span than their height absent the curvature. But to crunch the numbers for a non-scoliotic person, if they were 5' 2", if their arm span was > 1.05 times that then their arm span would be > 5' 5"+. That is well beyond where you likely are even without a curve I think.
Anyway, depending on how much correction you get, I think you will end up being taller than your arm span.
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