About spinal scoliosis

There are various causes of scoliosis, but the most frequent one is spontaneous scoliosis. It means that you don't know the cause.
The onset period is classified into infancy (under 3 years old), infancy (3 to 10 years old), and puberty (after 10 years old), and most occur from late childhood to puberty. Many deformations progress without stagnation, and when they become severe, they cause external problems, lower back and back pain, respiratory and cardiovascular disorders.
If it is found early or if the progress is slow, prevent the progress with the orthosis. If the degree of curve or the spine twist is large, orthodontics will be applied by surgery. This is because the scoliosis with a large curve progresses little by little every year after the growth ends, resulting in a highly degenerative scoliosis in the future.

It is also a feature of this hospital that there are many patients with adolescent scoliosis, including outpatients, hospitalizations, and surgery, because they have opened a special outpatient clinic for scoliosis. Many scoliosis is light and only follow-up is sufficient. However, if the scoliosis progresses to some extent and the adult bone has not yet been reached, we recommend orthosis treatment as described above. In addition, some patients may continue to progress scoliosis, so in that case we recommend surgical treatment at a time.

Naturally, the spine bent due to surgical treatment becomes quite straight, improving the twist of the trunk and the bump on the back. You will need to be hospitalized for about 10 days. Every Tuesday and Thursday, we open scoli and spine deformation outpatient departments. If you have any problems with scoliosis or spine deformation, please feel free to contact us. You can have a medical examination without a letter of introduction. (Click here for outpatient scoliosis and spine deformation.)

In April 2014, we introduced a questionnaire on scoliosis by parents to improve the accuracy of the scoliosis health check-up (primary health check-up) in physical checkup by school doctors at elementary and junior high schools.
In order to detect and treat scoliosis as early as possible, City of Yokohama, Board of Education Secretariat has asked parents to distribute "recommendations for consultation" from schools, and teachers of the Orthopedic Society are cooperating with the second health check-up.

In order to detect scoliosis early, daily observation by parents is important.
In addition to paying attention to abnormalities in posture in daily life, especially taking advantage of the opportunity to get naked to the upper body and performing the following observations will lead to early detection.
Children are soft, and even if they observe closely with the posture shown in the figure, there may be differences only about 1 cm.
If you feel any abnormality, it is important to get a diagnosis from an orthopedic surgeon.

Diagnosis and treatment of spinal cord scoliosis requires specialized knowledge, skills, and experience compared to other spinal cord diseases.
In recent years, health hazards caused by radiation exposure have become a major concern, especially children are more susceptible to radiation than adults, so it is important to reduce X-ray imaging in health check-up.
This hospital has introduced the first X-ray imaging system in the prefecture (the third aircraft in Japan) that can evaluate the shape and arrangement of spine, waist, and hip joints. The radiation dose can be reduced to less than 1/10 of the conventional X-ray imaging and 1/20 to 1/170 of the CT imaging.

This EOS imaging test ensures that the type and progress of the curve can be diagnosed with low exposure, which is very useful in determining treatment policies.

In this hospital, we are raising awareness of diseases for citizens.
We will post a leaflet summarizing basic knowledge about scoliosis, so I hope you can use it.