Causes of Scoliosis

There is no one known cause for scoliosis or why some patients curvatures remain small and the same throughout adulthood while others increase, cause pain and other symptoms and require surgery.

Scoliosis is thought to be genetic and run in families but often with different effects in each generation. In addition to genetics, other possible causes of scoliosis include:

• neurological occurs after an injury or illness such as a spinal cord or brain injury, cerebral palsy or polio myelitis
• trauma occurs after an induced spinal cord injury
• congenital abnormalities occurs when abnormalities happen in the spinal cord or vertebrae
• developmental abnormalities occurs when component parts are malformed either the vertebrae are congenitally fused together, leading to very severe curves or the underlying spinal cord is formed incorrectly