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High-tech rods put my little girl straight
(Daily Express 29/09/2009)
FOR many school children PE is something to be endured rather than enjoyed. Yet for Somer Woodley-Dale it is a treat to be able to exercise rather than have to watch from the sidelines. Until recently, 8 year-old Somer was so crippled by a condition called scoliosis, which left her with a crooked back, that she was unable to join in even the lightest activities. Now, having become one of the youngest patients in the world to have titanium rods fitted to her spine, she can finally get involved.
Op cures girl whose heart was displaced by curvature of spine
(BBC 21/07/2009)
A teenage girl who's heart was pushed to the wrong side of her body by a rare spine deformity has been cured by surgery. Koryn McFadden, an 18-year-old nursery nurse from Corby, Northants, had scoliosis, a curvature of the spine. The defect produced a pendulum effect where her heart was pushed three inches to the right. Surgeons at the Queen's Medical Centre in Nottingham say her heart should now stay in place following her operation.
Surgeons straighten spine of 'Hunchback' girl
(Telegraph 08/05/2009)
Jessica Bishop, 14, was bent-double after being affected by a condition called scoliosis, a lateral curvature of the spine. Diagnosed 16 months ago, she lost two inches at a time she was meant to be growing. The curvature meant her lungs operated at only 60 per cent capacity and she was warned that without surgery the condition could kill her. Now she has regained two inches and can walk tall thanks to an 11-hour operation at the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital in Birmingham.
Could my 16 year old daughter have osteoporosis?
(Telegraph 10/04/2009)
Q I am concerned about my 16-year-old daughter's posture. She is very active but seems to have a strangely shaped spine. Above the arch of her lower back, there are four or five parts of her spinal column that seem to protrude. This gives her an overall appearance of slouching, or being permanently hunched forward. I keep telling her to stand up straight but she says it's too uncomfortable because of pain in her neck and shoulders.
I grew two inches after doctors cured my curved spine
(Daily Mail 26/01/2009)
As she strikes a confident pose, it is easy to see why Gemma Riley is one of the contenders in a national modelling competition. Yet it is only three months since the 15-year-old was in agony from a rare medical condition which contorted her spine into an S-shape. Since then she has undergone a five-hour operation, during which surgeons clamped her spine in the right place.
Spine implant
(BBC 26/11/2008)
A teenage gymnast from Portsmouth has become the first person in the world to get a new kind of implant to help straighten her back. Ruth Smith has scoliosis of the spine - which means her back is severely bent. The surgeon, Mr Davies teamed up with a Swiss professor of engineering to design and manufacture the "Davies Dominoes" -which he used in Ruth's back.
Teenager helps his twin brother survive by donating a piece of his back in world first
(Daily Mail 18/09/2008)
Scott Mills, 19, has severe scoliosis, or curvature of the spine, and needed an operation to help him breathe more easily. But after previous operations the skin on his back was so scarred and thin that surgeons would not have been able to sew him up again. So his brother Luke donated a 10in by 6in piece of skin, fat and muscle with a vein and artery - from his back.
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