Voodoo?
I'm a bit surprised at your surgeon using "voodoo" in association with Spinecor.
Someone edify me here but isn't there really only one possible mechanism -- compressing the growth plates on one side and allowing growth on the other so as to use growth to remove the curve?
I mean this isn't like Lithium where they can't figure out the biochemical pathway from among hundreds/thousands of pathways, especially given it might be novel.
I'm not a medical type but the scale of figuring out how bracing works for scoliosis seems much smaller/simpler than that for figuring out the biochemical pathway for Lithium and how it works to moderate bipolar disorder.
I know I keep bringing up Lithium but that is the only example I have ever heard of where a cure is found for some condition but they don't know why it works. Totally empirical. Bracing doesn't seem empirical at all. Quite the opposite.
I'm a bit surprised at your surgeon using "voodoo" in association with Spinecor.
Someone edify me here but isn't there really only one possible mechanism -- compressing the growth plates on one side and allowing growth on the other so as to use growth to remove the curve?
I mean this isn't like Lithium where they can't figure out the biochemical pathway from among hundreds/thousands of pathways, especially given it might be novel.
I'm not a medical type but the scale of figuring out how bracing works for scoliosis seems much smaller/simpler than that for figuring out the biochemical pathway for Lithium and how it works to moderate bipolar disorder.
I know I keep bringing up Lithium but that is the only example I have ever heard of where a cure is found for some condition but they don't know why it works. Totally empirical. Bracing doesn't seem empirical at all. Quite the opposite.
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