Patient Stories

I was diagnosed with scoliosis at 14 years old. My mother was helping me try on my 8th grade prom dress and noticed it looked crooked on me. She kept trying to adjust it with no luck....

I was diagnosed with scoliosis at 14 years old. My mother was helping me try on my 8th grade prom dress and noticed it looked crooked on me. She kept trying to adjust it with no luck....

I was first diagnosed with scoliosis in 2015 when I was 13 years old. Getting ready for my 8th grade dance, my mom noticed that my dress no longer fit right by my shoulders, despite it fitting perfectly just a few months ago when I had purchased it....

I was diagnosed with Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis in 2013, when I was 12 years old. Although my spine had been straight less than a year earlier at my annual physical appointment, I suddenly had a curvature of over 50 degrees....

In 8th grade, my school would check students for scoliosis. When it was my turn, I got the all-clear. A couple of weeks later, my mom and I went to the doctors because I had injured my left knee at dance....

I was diagnosed with scoliosis at 14 years old. My mother was helping me try on my 8th grade prom dress and noticed it looked crooked on me. She kept trying to adjust it with no luck....

My name is Lauren Donnelley, I am a 15-year-old competitive swimmer, and I am a survivor of Scoliosis Spinal Fusion Surgery. I stood in my pediatrician’s office, at the young age of 10, when I was diagnosed with idiopathic scoliosis....

When I was younger, I thought scoliosis had to do with your skull.  Little did I know I would experience the true meaning of a curved spine....

At 9 years old I was diagnosed with scoliosis and being 9 years old I really did not have a clue what I was in store for....

On December 12, 2018, my life changed. I underwent spinal fusion surgery. I never thought I would be at this point, after endless hot nights in my brace, days after school in which I went to physical therapy, I always thought "I will get through this, I will beat scoliosis....