Welcome to the Growing Spine Blog!

The
aim of this blog is to provide parents and caregivers with clear, concise
information on the problems, issues and treatment of pediatric and adolescent
spine deformity topics.  We will try to
demystify and focus our postings around spine deformity topics (scoliosis,
kyphosis, spondylolysis, spondylolisthesis, etc…), in the
cervical-thoracic-lumbosacral spine, in patients 0-21 years of age.  Our discussions may wander outside of this
area at times, but we will always re-center our attention to the core area of
this blog: pediatric spinal deformity. 

There
is a significant amount of information available on pediatric spinal deformity
topics.  Accessing this information can
be easy.  However, it often leaves
individuals in a state of confusion, and frustration, when attempting to find
current, relevant information on a pediatric spinal deformity topic for their
child’s situation.  If you are searching
for the best general information available, there are a few websites which can
be useful to help obtain peer-reviewed, relevant, unbiased information on
pediatric spinal deformity:

                   




















Scoliosis
Research Society                                         
http://www.srs.org/    

Pediatric
Orthopaedic Society of North America     
https://posna.org/

American
Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons          
http://www.aaos.org/

 

These
three websites are professional, physician-society websites which are without
industry or marketing influence.  Their
aim is to provide scientifically-based information without bias.

If
you have questions, concerns, or issues in which you are searching for answers
please leave a post.  We will routinely
review the blog to address new inquiries, answer questions and we will continue
to post new information on a variety of pediatric spinal deformity topics.  Thanks for reading!

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