What are the misconceptions about scoliosis prevention and treatment?

  A fluke mentality: some patients’ parents think that children will be good when they grow up, and some patients’ parents think that mild bending may not matter, can be observed, serious to a certain extent and then go to treatment, thus delaying the best period of treatment, resulting in a lifetime of pain. Scoliosis Patients are mostly concentrated in the age group of 10 to 15 years old, usually wearing clothes is not easy to notice, the development is very fast, generally a year time bending will increase 6 degrees to 10 degrees. Moreover, the best time to treat scoliosis is before skeletal maturity, the earlier the treatment, the better the results.  Second, that no treatment, scoliosis will not develop in adulthood: scoliosis into adulthood there are still 65 to 75% of patients progress, especially when the skeletal maturity curvature in more than 30 °, the most likely to progress is 50 ° ~ 80 ° thoracic bending, can progress 0.75 ° ~ 1 ° per year. The progression of lumbar bending is more obvious than that of thoracic bending, and junctional retroconvex deformity may appear between the upper and lower bends.  Third, the misunderstanding of some medical institutions: Now many doctors do not understand the treatment of scoliosis, always say that the surgery after adulthood, resulting in delayed timing, delayed patients. In addition, scoliosis surgery is difficult and risky, many hospitals prefer to use conservative therapy.  So go to a specialist hospital to find a specialist doctor.  Fourth, can not correctly deal with the relationship between study, work and treatment: scoliosis sufferers are mostly in junior and senior secondary education, learning tensions, the contradiction between continuing school or suspending school to cure the disease. Many parents choose the former, and some are hesitant, in fact, these practices and performance is extremely wrong. The reasoning is very simple: scoliosis is a stubborn disease that is tricky to treat, and not treating it in time is extremely harmful. Learning is important, but learning a year early and a year late can be, while the treatment of this disease, a year early and a year late is very different. If scoliosis has developed, serious, health is no longer, then your education is high, the ability is strong, due to physical barriers, the future of society is difficult to show their talents as normal people.  Fifth, the straighter the scoliosis correction is better: the purpose of scoliosis treatment is to restore the balance of the spine, control the development of deformity, and then correct the deformity, the chances of correction to zero degrees is not too high, if you insist on improving the correction rate, then the incidence of complications such as nerve damage will be greatly increased. The vast majority of patients and families want to treat to zero degree, this mood is understandable, but must face up to recognize the special nature of suffering from this disease. We are, after all, to cure the disease, not to cure the film.  Sixth, surgery is risky and easy to damage nerves: Any surgery is traumatic to the organism, so there are risks. However, for diseases that can only be treated by surgery, surgery is a certain trauma in exchange for the treatment of the disease. The question of whether the benefits or drawbacks are greater is considered. Scoliosis surgery involves the spinal cord and nerves, and the risks are greater than in general surgery. However, the modern scoliosis treatment concept is advanced and scientific, the surgical technique is standardized, mature and reliable, and there are intraoperative arousal experiments and evoked potentials to monitor the spinal nerves, which greatly reduces the risk of surgery. Therefore, there is no need to worry too much about the risk of surgery. The idea and practice of delaying surgical treatment due to excessive concern about surgical risks is undesirable.