{"id":724,"date":"2010-12-02T16:28:11","date_gmt":"2010-12-02T16:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cloverock.info\/mockosce23\/new\/scoliosis\/"},"modified":"2024-08-09T17:10:48","modified_gmt":"2024-08-09T16:10:48","slug":"scoliosis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.qpercom.com\/sim\/index.php\/the-examination-of-the-spine\/spinal-shape-and-posture-defects\/scoliosis\/","title":{"rendered":"Scoliosis"},"content":{"rendered":"<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #003366;\">When viewed from the back, the <span style=\"color: #33cccc;\"><strong>spine<\/strong><\/span> should be <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">completely straight<\/span>. Small curvatures and twists are part of normal variation and are very common. Only the larger deformities are of clinical importance and require good control or treatment. If a <span style=\"color: #33cccc;\"><strong>sideways curvature<\/strong><\/span> is present (<em>in the frontal plane<\/em>), this is called <span style=\"color: #33cccc;\"><strong>scoliosis<\/strong><\/span><em><strong> [Figure 67]<\/strong><\/em>. Scolioses can be divided into <span style=\"color: #33cccc;\"><strong>structural<\/strong><\/span> and <span style=\"color: #33cccc;\"><strong>non-structural scolioses<\/strong><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #003366;\">With the <span style=\"color: #33cccc;\"><strong>structural form<\/strong><\/span>, the scoliosis persists after cancelling out any additional findings, such as a leg length difference or a poor posture. With <span style=\"color: #33cccc;\"><strong>non-structural forms<\/strong><\/span>, scoliosis will have disappeared. When the patient stoops over, no twisting of the vertebrae should be visible. If some rotation prevails, it could involve structural scoliosis or simply a twisting of vertebrae around their axis, without the presence of a curvature in the frontal plane. If there is only rotation of a section of the spine without curvature in the frontal plane then it does concern a structural deformity, although it will not require any treatment.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span class=\"jce_caption\" style=\"display: inline-block; color: #003366;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-722\" style=\"margin: auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/cloverock.info\/mockosce23\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Spine_sp-fig-68.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"342\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.qpercom.com\/sim\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Spine_sp-fig-68.jpg 468w, https:\/\/www.qpercom.com\/sim\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Spine_sp-fig-68-300x256.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><strong><span style=\"width: 400px; display: block;\">Figure 67<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When viewed from the back, the spine should be completely straight. Small curvatures and twists are part of normal variation and are very common. Only the larger deformities are of clinical importance and require good control or treatment. If a sideways curvature is present (in the frontal plane), this is called scoliosis [Figure 67]. Scolioses [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[142],"class_list":["post-724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spinal-shape-and-posture-defects","tag-the-examination-of-the-spine"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Scoliosis - Qpercom | Skills in Medicine<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Online Mock OSCEs with examiners, patient actors, instant results and personalised feedback. 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