Research suggests answer to adolescent idiopathic scoliosis may reside in brain’s corticoreticular pathway

Heavy school bags, poor posture, one-handed sports are often blamed for the development of curved spine in teens. Known as adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS), it affects those aged 10 to 19 but has no known cause. A team from Singapore General Hospital (SGH) and National Neuroscience Institute (NNI) has now discovered that the answer to this condition may lie in the brain.

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