About four in 100 children are diagnosed with scoliosis, a sideways bending of the spine. Scoliosis most often occurs just before puberty. Alexis Van Voorst was diagnosed with severe scoliosis when ...

Call it medical magic — make that MAGEC. Doctors at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital are now reaching for the handheld MAGEC device instead of their scalpel when they treat patients with early-onset ...

ST. LOUIS – St. Louis Children’s Hospital is one of the few in the nation to offer specialized treatment for children with spinal muscular atrophy called the MAGEC rod procedure. A little girl from ...

(KUTV) There’s a new way for doctors to treat young children with severe scoliosis. Magnetically controlled growing rods, also known as MAGEC rods, allow kids with scoliosis to make fewer trips to the ...

A surgical magnetic rod system used to treat scoliosis in children has a high failure rate, necessitating multiple surgeries and causing significant morbidity in these young patients, new research ...

Six-year-old Stanley Wesemeyer is extremely active. But when he was younger, early onset scoliosis hindered his childhood fun. Nearly 100,000 kids in the United States share Stanley’s condition and ...

Like any 6-year-old boy, Jayden Ortiz wants to get taller if for no other reason than to loom over his older brother, Jesiah. Oh, and the Reedley boy has another special reason. “I want to be able to ...

Scoliosis - typically defined as the curvature of the spine— affects around 3 out of every 100 people. While most cases of scoliosis are mild, some children develop spine deformities that continue to ...

On the outside, Mason Bunker looked like a healthy little boy, but on the inside he was battling multiple medical challenges. He underwent surgeries for two unrelated conditions by the time he was ...

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Children with severe scoliosis often spend their entire childhood going through a series of painful surgeries to correct the curve in their spine, but all of those surgeries ...