Beware Of Scoliosis

Tuesday, August 2, 2011

Often feel pain in the neck,back or waist? Many people assume it is the effect of high cholesterol levels, blood, and uric acid. But if the pain is up to you constantly, you may be exposed to Scoliosis.

Scoliosis is a spinal deformity that usually will make your spine to form the letter "C" or "S". The reason there are a variety of factors, including the bone abnormalities at birth (because scoliosis is a hereditary disease), infection of the bone, injury factors (such as sports injury or accident), and osteoporosis (bone loss).

Many people are unaware of this disease. If there is soreness, excessive pain in the neck or waist is usually the initial action taken is massage the pain with the hope goes away by itself. However, if the disorder is pain felt already exceeds the limit, the action is usually done to check blood pressure, cholesterol, and uric acid. However, if you were affected by scoliosis, a test is not going to answer your pain problem. The next step is usually done is to perform X-ray section pain, but usually it still will not find the cause of the problem. What should be done is to the overall X-ray of the spine, to be seen whether there is a slope. Because by looking at the whole spine, from neck to waist, will not be known whether your bone disorder skolisosis or not.

Scoliosis at the level of each person is different - different, depending on the levels of tilt bone or commonly called the Cobb angle bone slope less than 10 degrees is still categorized as mild scoliosis and less than 40 degrees, including the middle category. Meanwhile, when the slope is more than 40 degrees, then it is categorized as severe. For light and medium categories, you can still improve or at least keep his balance with exercise therapy, but when it is above 40 degrees, surgery is a good way out. Preferably when it is painful prolonged ditulang behind you, immediately check with your doctor to avoid a greater impact.