How Scoliosis Surgery Works ?

How Scoliosis Surgery works ?

During scoliosis surgery, your surgeon uses screws and rods to

straighten your spine and hold the spine in place until a solid bridge of bone forms.

First the surgeon removes the facet joints. This frees your spine and allows your surgeon to see where to place the screws. Next, the surgeon inserts special screws called pedical screws into the bone. The screws will stay safely inside the bone of each vertebra. After the screws are all in, the surgeon carefully feeds a straight metal rod into each screw head. Your surgeon uses it to slowly straighten out your spine, correcting your scoliosis.

After Scoliosis Surgery, The shoulders Will become more level. And the ribs start to return to normal. To make sure your scoliosis doesn't come back, the surgeon

will make a bone graft. Remember the facet joints? The surgeon combines those with other parts of your spine that you don't need anymore called the spinus prefaces. Then he or she mixes them into a material to place on your spine. Over time, this material becomes part of your spine. Your bone heals and forms a solid column around the screws and rods. And there it is.

That's how we improve and stabilize your scoliosis. Surgery might sound scary, but each year thousands of teens have spine surgery to correct their scoliosis and return to all of their previous physical activities.

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