Scoliosis correction allows you to straighten your back

  A beautiful 14-year-old girl with excellent academic performance was diagnosed with adolescent idiopathic scoliosis after scoliosis was discovered 3 years ago, and the patient and her parents were mentally tortured. The patient had both thoracic and lumbar scoliosis deformities and a more severe deformity with a main curvature of more than 60 degrees. In response to the patient’s young age, heavy deformity, difficulty of orthopedics, and high risk, the orthopedic professor developed a detailed surgical plan and successfully completed the orthopedic surgery with the cooperation of the anesthesiologist and operating room nurses.  Post-operative X-ray review showed that the orthopedics achieved excellent results. The Department of Orthopedics of the First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University (Chongqing Spine Surgery Center) has successfully performed orthopedic surgery for many patients with scoliosis deformity with good results.  Scoliosis, usually refers to stooping and hunchback. One shoulder is high and one shoulder is low at the time of consultation, also known as sloping shoulders in folklore. Scoliosis occurs in adolescents aged 12-16 years old, with an incidence of about 20/100,000 and a male to female ratio of about 1:8-9. 20% of patients are congenital, i.e. the fetus develops abnormally in the mother’s womb; in addition, 80% of affected adolescents have an unknown cause. There are approximately 3 million adolescents affected nationwide.  Because the cause of idiopathic adolescent scoliosis is unknown, it cannot be prevented, but only detected early, in the stage of functional scoliosis, can be corrected early through non-surgical methods; if found late, the bones are set and become structural scoliosis, can only be corrected through surgery, about 30,000 cases of scoliosis adolescents need surgery each year. However, because scoliosis correction surgery is a high-risk, difficult and costly surgery, its most dreaded surgical complication is paralysis. The Department of Orthopedics at the First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, which is home to the Chongqing Spine Surgery Center, has successfully completed this surgery for many scoliosis patients since it was independently performed in 2003, bringing a boon to this type of patient in Chongqing.