If you've never seen severe scoliosis
before take a look at this picture of a CT scan image slice through the abdomen a reader sent me. For the untrained physician, what you're looking at is just one picture of time and space in the patient's abdomen. White is bone. The top bone is the breast bone. The bottom bones are the spine. Normally on one picture slice you would only see one vertebrae. But as you can see, in this patient with severe scoliosis, you can see three vertebrae (the three little box looking things).
What does this picture tell us? It tells us that this patient's spine, at some point as it travels from the neck to the butt, is horizontal. That's right, this patient's scoliosis is so severe that the spine is horizontal to the floor while in the standing position. That's amazing and painful to look at. As far as scoliosis goes, this is about as severe as it can get and is far worse than any case I've ever seen.
before take a look at this picture of a CT scan image slice through the abdomen a reader sent me. For the untrained physician, what you're looking at is just one picture of time and space in the patient's abdomen. White is bone. The top bone is the breast bone. The bottom bones are the spine. Normally on one picture slice you would only see one vertebrae. But as you can see, in this patient with severe scoliosis, you can see three vertebrae (the three little box looking things).What does this picture tell us? It tells us that this patient's spine, at some point as it travels from the neck to the butt, is horizontal. That's right, this patient's scoliosis is so severe that the spine is horizontal to the floor while in the standing position. That's amazing and painful to look at. As far as scoliosis goes, this is about as severe as it can get and is far worse than any case I've ever seen.
