16 Scoliosis World w/ Dr Morningstar: Risk-Based Treatment

<ul><li>Historically, scoliosis treatment is based on the curve measurement</li><li>The curve measurement is not the only thing effecting quality of life issues and pain levels</li><li>Given that, why do anything based on the curve measurement alone?</li><li>At ScoliSMART, we treat patients based upon a “risk assessment”</li><li>Example: Younger children with the same degree curve as older children need to have more aggressive treatment because they have more growth ahead of them</li><li>What we see on an x-ray that we call scoliosis is not really the entire condition, It is the end-stage cascade of things going wrong in scoliosis</li><li>We seek lasting-outcomes and to prevent anything from sabotaging that</li><li>We assess biochemical and genomic risk factors</li><li>Treatments are tailored to the individual</li></ul>