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From: ronald@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Ronald Amundson)
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Subject: Scoliosis query
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Date: 8 Aug 90 19:50:05 GMT
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[I'm posting this for an acquaintance who has adult post-polio
scoliosis.  Email replies to me (ronald@uhccux.bitnet) or use
misc.handicap and I'll forward them to her.]

Two questions:

1)  Since the spine is not a rigid bone (like the thigh)
why won't it straighten?  My spine, anyway, is still flexible.

2)  What are the standard references -- books or articles -- on adult
scoliosis?

To the first question, the doctors I've spoken to say "I don't know,"
and I believe them.  But to the second they say "There _is_ no
literature on adult scoliosis."  That I don't believe.  I've looked
pretty hard, and all I can find deals with either scoliosis in
children and adolescents or post-polio problems dealing with arms and
legs rather than spines.

[Send responses to misc.handicap or ronald@uhccux.bitnet]