Dallas teen Logan McGill has scoliosis and wears a body brace 20 hours a day. Dec. 3, 2010— -- When Logan McGill, 15, was diagnosed with a severe case of scoliosis last year, doctors gave her two ...

Imagine feeling restricted, all day and all night, and not being able bend down. That is what wearing a scoliosis brace feels like. Scoliosis is the abnormal curving of the spine. It not only affects ...

Randi Ford, 12, who has scoliosis, gets a high-five from Dr. Tony Herring, chief of staff at Scottish Rite Hospital for Children after getting her back brace checked. Debra Brod, who recently ...

Using data from the Bracing in Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis Trial, researchers found that wearing a brace to treat adolescent idiopathic scoliosis does not have a negative impact on the body image ...

I'll never forget the first day I wore a back brace to school. I was 8 years old and had recently been diagnosed with scoliosis, which was curving my spine into an S shape. The rigid plastic hardware ...

Doctors regularly achieve miraculous feats, from removing brain tumors to fixing the curve in a teenager’s spine. Yet there’s only so much they can do to understand the illness you’re facing—and that ...

In teenagers, being overweight appears to threaten the success of wearing a back brace, the most commonly prescribed and only proven non-surgical treatment for curvature of the spine, say researchers ...

DEAR MAYO CLINIC: My 10-year-old daughter was just diagnosed with scoliosis. The curve is 19 degrees, and I have read that it could worsen with time. Will she need to wear a brace? Or is surgery ...

For her 12th birthday in February, Marissa Levy of Oceanside, N.Y., received an unusual gift: a test that told her spine doctor she could give up her body brace. In summer 2009, after screening by the ...

I’ll never forget the first day I wore a back brace to school. I was 8 years old and had recently been diagnosed with scoliosis, which was curving my spine into an S shape. The rigid plastic hardware ...