Scoliosis - Curvature of the Spine

Host: What is scoliosis?

Guest: Scoliosis is the curvature of the spine in the anterior-posterior range.

Host: Okay. What is kyphosis?

Guest: Kyphosis is the curvature of the spine.

Host: Is that like the noted -- the hunchback -- did he have a kyphosis or scoliosis?

Guest: Kyphoscoliosis, he had both.

Host: He had a little bit of a both, but that hump would be --

Guest: That was Kyphosis.

Host: That was a kyphosis -- to the lump?

Guest: That will be scoliosis; that can be with a hump but a different hump.

Host: If you have a leg that’s longer than the other leg, will you have a little bit of scoliosis?

Guest: One other thing that you have -- be sure that you have leg-length discrepancy it is scoliosis -- leg length.

Host: Let’s talk about the common age that you would have concern for scoliosis?

Guest: Most common age people are adolescent case.

Host: Adolescent, about what time would that be?

Guest: In female it is 12-years-old, that will be the time they have the periods and in males, 14-years-old.

Host: 14-years-old. What should a doctor at a routine exam should be looking for it -watch the kid walks, how he bends the spine; if it turns a little bit to the left and to the right, but if you notice kids, look at the back, it seems that, that little part of the shoulder -- and things like that, isn’t it like one shoulder, that part is a little higher than the other one, is that more?

Guest: The part we usually see is the shoulder blade, one higher than the other one.


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