MEDICAL BREAKTHROUGHS RESEARCH SUMMARY TOPIC: 3D PRINTING HELPS SURGEONS FIX SCOLIOSIS REPORT: MB #4627 BACKGROUND: Scoliosis is a sideways curvature of the spine that affects about three percent ...

Two women said the metal left in their spines after surgery to fix scoliosis makes them feel like "superwomen". Sophie Nixon, 27, from Cramlington, Northumberland, and Zoe Blenkinsop, 25 ...

An innovation team in Phoenix, Arizona is 3D- printing the spines of patients who have severe scoliosis so there are no surprises on operation day. Megan Johansen was diagnosed with scoliosis at ...

Two women said the metal left in their spines after surgery to fix scoliosis makes them feel like "superwomen". Sophie Nixon, 27, from Cramlington, Northumberland, and Zoe Blenkinsop, 25 ...

The brace will not “fix” scoliosis; rather, it will help keep the condition in check and is meant to prevent progression of the curve. For example, if a curve is 25 degrees and the brace stops ...

Just in the last six months the lump quickly worsened into life-threatening scoliosis. Tanner had a 127 ... Tanner’s case too severe for him to fix, his family in Shalimar began looking elsewhere.

Over 250 children with scoliosis are either waiting on an operation to fix their spine or waiting to see a consultant, it has been revealed. Some 165 children with scoliosis are currently waiting ...

The rods correct the effects of scoliosis, a horizontal curvature of the spine. By now, the hardware is as much a part of her as her arms and her legs. Bone has grown around the rods — and the ...

The newly-married royal had major surgery on her back as a child to treat scoliosis – a potentially ... a scar on her back after a procedure to fix a tethered spinal cord when she was just ...