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Scoliosis can occur in the presence of back pain. If someone is 
suffering back pain and has scoliosis, by all means they should get 
treatment. But, what they should *not* do, is assume that their pain is 
*from* the scoliosis. It can be painful in severe cases (beyond 30 
degrees) but still often isn't. Most back pain is mechanical and 
accompanied by compensatory soft tissue pain.
 There are other varieties of spinal disfiguring that are not simple 
scoliosis, and they may cause pain, like degenerative scoliosis, 
muscular dystrophy, and other neurologic disorders. Simple, 
uncomplicated scoliosis is almost never the causative factor of pain by 
itself. This does not mean that we, as doctors, shouldn't take the 
complaints of children seriously. We simply need to be prepared enough 
to understand back pain and look for the true origin.   Dr Q


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