A larger curve can call for corrective surgery. Formerly, doctors thought that scoliosis does not progress after bones mature. Some curves continue to increase throughout life. Your daughter is not too old to have surgery if she needs it. The need hinges on how large her curve is, how it affects her health and how much it progresses year by year.
Older people are less likely to require treatment than are children.
She has recently developed some strange habits. When she enters a room, she touches the wall. Everything has to be in place. She lines up shoes and repeats the act as many as three times. She feels so bad about it that it makes her cry.