Scoliosis is a disease that attacks the spine, causing it to grow in the wrong direction in different areas. It is an condition that happens predominately in childhood but can show up in adults in some cases where it wasn’t detected earlier. Treating scoliosis can be an overwhelming thing for anyone, and the fear is based on potential disfiguration. There are a few different ways of screening and treating it.

Should you consider taking your child to the chiropractor for scoliosis? Scoliosis is a condition that is very difficult to treat for the medical profession, with most of the treatment being administered by orthopedists. If one day, your child gets sent home with a note from the school nurse saying she has scoliosis, what should you do?

The spinal condition, scoliosis, can affect anyone from children to adults. Scoliosis develops gradually and is most often indentified during adolescence. It is more common to find scoliosis in girls than in boys.

We can narrow down this from all afflictions of the back that cause poor posture to just those that you weren’t born with. In the chiropractic arena, we generally understand that most spinal conditions (that you aren’t born with) are due to some kind of trauma.
That trauma may be as easy to [...]

By Heidi Terry-Litchfield
Herald Writer
Heidi Bunting of Morris is standing a little bit taller these days, after scoliosis surgery straightened the curve in her spine from 50 to 18 degrees.
Bunting went to her regular doctor for her annual sports physical last August so she could be involved in the sports in which she has always participated [...]