Your Knoxville Chiropractor Diagnoses and Treats Scoliosis of the Spine

Abnormal curvature of the spine is called scoliosis, a congenital or developmental disorder that benefits from beginning appropriate treatment as early as possible. If your Knoxville chiropractor diagnoses your child with scoliosis, an orthotic specialist will create a brace designed to address location of the curve along the spine, curve flexibility and multiplicity of curves. Scoliosis braces are usually worn by children between 10 and 16 years of age to prevent worsening of curvature of their spine as they enter adolescence and begin maturing rapidly.

Types of Scoliosis

Your chiropractor in Knoxville will visually and manually examine children to determine the clinical form of scoliosis affecting their spines. For example, dextroscoliosis describes spines curving to the right while levoconvex refers to spines curving to the left. A combination of lateral and outward spine curvature is called kyphoscoliosis. Curvature affecting the lumbar and thoracic areas of the spine is diagnosed as thoracolumbar scoliosis. In addition, your chiropractor will use COREscore® to improve the accuracy of diagnostic information during the course of treatment.

What is COREscore®?

By utilizing three essential measurements of your spinal neural functioning, COREscore® generates a precisely accurate summary of your condition by collecting specific scores from paraspinal thermal scans, surface EMGs and heart rate variability. This gives your chiropractor a clinically detailed account of how scoliosis or other musculoskeletal problems are impacting your general health.

COREscore® employs peer-reviewed, validated technologies to provide information about the unhealthy effects of spinal misalignments such as scoliosis. Extremely versatile in application, COREscore® probes and analyzes efficiencies and defects in your central nervous system to clearly show how neuro-spinal stress may be the underlying cause of various health issues.

Visit Cornerstone Chiropractic in Knoxville, Tennessee Today!

To fully appreciate the benefits of COREscore®, we invite parents of children with scoliosis to make an appointment with Dr. John Edwards by calling (865) 247-0458 for a consultation. Cornerstone Chiropractic in Knoxville, Tennessee also offers holistic treatment for painful musculoskeletal disorders, chronic migraines, allergies and other conditions caused by a dysfunctional nervous system.