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Why do some get juvenile scoliosis and others get adolescent scoliosis?

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So there are many children that develop scoliosis at a young age, it's called juvenile scoliosis. This type usually becomes a very bad type of scoliosis. Others like me only get adolescent scoliosis, with me it was detected when I was 19 years old, it's a 20° S curve.

Why is that so? I'm guessing that the juvenile scoliosis typically gets so bad because when they reach adolescence a growth spurt sets in and makes it worse. But why did I develop it at adolescence and not right in the beginning? Does this have nothing to do with nutrition and underweight?

And why are girls much more likely to develop scoliosis? I think it was something like 3/4 or 2/3 of girls that develop scoliosis, the rest beig boys.

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