Scoliosis Research Paper
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Scoliosis is by the definition a curvature of the spine, or simply put a bend. Over three million cases of scoliosis are reported each year, in percentages it is two to three percent of the world population. Scoliosis can affect babies, children, teenagers, and adults, the medium average for scoliosis during the age of puberty, and yes it can affect both genders, but females have a much higher chance to get it. Scoliosis can affect your life immensely, it can limit your body movement, cause pain, reduce your ability to breath, and cut down your self esteem. Scoliosis can occur at random, each year scoliosis patients make thousands of visits to physicians offices, and thousands children have braces due to scoliosis, while over thirty thousand