Surgery for Spinal Deformity Correction

The spine consists of an elegant stack of vertebrae and disks, which appear straight from the front and curved from the side, to keep the body erect and the head level. An abnormal curve in your spine, such as scoliosis or kyphosis, is known as a spinal deformity. It can affect your spine’s ability to do its job, leading to pain, neurological problems, and mobility challenges. Spinal deformities can occur for a wide range of reasons, including birth defects, aging and degeneration, to trauma.
Symptoms differ, depending on the type of deformity. They may take the form of:

• Pain
• Feeling of being off balance or difficulty walking or standing
• Visible curve (hunched over

Surgery is performed is the curve is symptomatically compressing your organs or if the curve continues to progress or if the pain become severe and is unresponsive to medical and conservative care. Spinal surgery involves mobilizing and straightening the spine, and then placement of instrumentation with a spinal fusion in order to hold the spine in the new position and prevent further progression of the curve.
Neurosurgeons use a combination of screws and rods and bones (taken from another part of the body) to encourage growth of new bones in better positions.
Patients can expert to recover from this surgery within two months.