Idiopathic scoliosis occurs either in infancy, childhood or adolescence, most commonly in late childhood, in one or two out of every hundred children, the majority of them girls. The usual surgical intervention involves the fusion of some of the vertebrae and the insertion of Harrington rods in the back to stabilize the spine. Please see Scoliosis page 2 for more on this subject . No one who has not completed skeletal growth should rely on treatment by a massage therapist for idiopathic scoliosis without at the same time being followed by a pediatrician or orthopedist. Only x-ray examination and measurements can be relied on to assess this condition accurately.
Postural scoliosis is a scoliosis caused by postural misalignment.
It is extremely common, and can in most cases be completely corrected by postural alignment therapy.