Dr. Douglas Armstrong is excited to be able to offer the option of magnetic expandable growing rods to parents of children with early onset scoliosis. The externally, remote-controlled rods help ...

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Children with severe scoliosis often spend their entire childhood going through a series of painful surgeries to correct the curve in their spine, but all of those surgeries ...

In a revolutionary treatment for early-onset scoliosis (EOS) -- the first ever in the United States -- a team of surgeons implanted adjustable growing rods in two children from California. In a ...

ATLANTA - Now 10, Anna Connolly has been a regular at the doctor's office since she was just six, when her mother Tiffany noticed a curve at the top of Anna's spine. "And you could see, because she ...

Six-year-old Stanley Wesemeyer is extremely active. But when he was younger, early onset scoliosis hindered his childhood fun. Nearly 100,000 kids in the United States share Stanley’s condition and ...

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- One in every thousand children under the age of 10 has early onset scoliosis. Their spinal curve can be so severe that they have a hard time breathing.

Not long ago, 9-year-old Javier Hruza would have had to face the risks of surgery half a dozen times to adjust the implanted metal rods straightening out his severely curved spine. But the Shoreview ...

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An 11-year-old boy who had a severely curved spine has gained six inches in height after an operation to insert magnets into his back. Thaine Marston was diagnosed with early onset scoliosis when ...