If there’s no fixed structural deformity in each vertebrae involved in a congenital cases of scoliosis, the correction is possible within age of 3 years. In cases of acquired scoliosis the reversibility is definite. Earlier the treatment and younger the patient the quicker and event free would be the changes during reversal.
Congenital cases are not uncommon. Scoliosis after meningitis is also not uncommon.
A boy of around 4 years was brought to me in the year 2019. His mother complained that he had meningitis and his backbone was bent after a heavy fever. She approached me with a request to set her son’s backbone right.
She say that the doctors had made two comments.
a) The complaint was congenital
b) The recurrent fever was making the deformity worse each time. He had meningitis earlier.
The case improved with treatment and the child’s backbone was straight with in six to seven months.
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