This is PediCast.

Welcome to Pediacast, a pediatric podcast for parents.

And now, direct from the campus of nationwide children's, here is your host, Dr. Mike.

Hello, everyone, and welcome. Once again to PDACast.

It's a pediatric podcast for moms and dads. This is Dr. Mike coming to you from the campus of

Nationwide Children's Hospital. We're in Columbus, Ohio. It's episode 375 for May 3rd, 2017. We're calling

this one Scoliosis and EOS imaging. I want to welcome everyone to the program.

So we're talking about scoliosis today,

and it is a topic that we've covered before on Pediacast.

You know, you do this for 10 years,

and you're bound to repeat some topics.

But the other thing is that medicine advances over the years,

and new technology becomes available, especially technology that's useful for the evaluation, diagnosis, and management of many conditions, including scoliosis.

So we do have something to add EOS imaging as we talk about scoliosis, because that was not an option the last time we talked about this disease process.

But we are going to start with a reminder of the nuts and bolts of scoliosis.

And it's an important thing to do now and then because scoliosis is a common condition.

In fact, you've probably heard of it before. But I bet also many of you have sort of a vague notion of what scoliosis is. You know, you probably know it has something to do with the spine, your kid's back. You know, maybe you remember from your own time in middle school and high school and bending over at the waist touching your

toes someone looks at your back so you know scoliosis has something to do with the spine but what

exactly is it uh we're going to talk about that so the basic elements of scoliosis you know what it is

what causes it what are the signs and symptoms how is it diagnosed and treated? If it's not treated, what happens?

And can scoliosis be prevented?

So, you know, the nuts and bolts of the disease.

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