Modern surgery for scoliosis has good long-term outcomes, study shows

Tuesday, April 5, 2011 - 09:30 in Health & Medicine

Teenagers who undergo spine fusion for scoliosis using the newest surgical techniques can expect to be doing well 10 years after surgery, according to a new study. Researchers had thought that the surgery would cause damage to the spine just below the fused discs, but the study showed that this was not the case.

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