ronald@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Ronald Amundson) (08/09/90)
Index Number: 9600 [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]