Is this possible, you ask? We normally read of the inevitable progression of juvenile scoliosis and it seems to be a given that juvenile scoliosis will at some point deteriorate to surgical levels. According to the following article, not so! In summary, the authors state that even though 20% of scoliosis cases are known to have an underlying cause which could be found through an MRI, the remaining 80% of unknown "idiopathic" cases are likely to be postural in nature and should be regarded as a biomechanical deformity regardless of initiating factors. Like many other researchers, they consider the classification of idiopathic scoliosis into the three distinct infantile/juvenile/adolescent groups as "arbitrary" and should not preclude the possibility that juvenile or even adolescent scoliosis could have originated much earlier or even in utero.
http://www.scoliosis-support.org/uploads/juvenile.pdf
http://www.scoliosis-support.org/uploads/juvenile.pdf
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