Is scoliosis hereditary? This is the most common question asked by patients. In fact, all diseases have a certain degree of family heredity, and many diseases come from genetic inheritance, but scoliosis is not a genetic disease, and heredity is only one of the factors. If the parents are scoliosis patients, the child may not necessarily be scoliosis, but the chances of the child getting scoliosis are much greater than normal, and genetics is only one of the factors causing scoliosis. Scoliosis with neurofibromatosis is the most significant heredity in scoliosis. When one parent has neurofibromatosis, the child will often also have neurofibromatosis and the child will be prone to scoliosis. Congenital scoliosis is the result of a combination of both genetic and environmental factors. On the basis of genetic factors, air pollution and water pollution in the surrounding environment tend to cause a high incidence of congenital scoliosis. Some studies have shown that the incidence of congenital scoliosis is high in poor western areas and low in developed coastal areas.