What is the danger of progressive scoliosis and how to treat it?

Hello, my name is Oksana, 32 years, x-ray conclusion: S-shaped thoracolumbar scoliosis of 2 degrees, 22 degrees at the top, at the bottom – don't know. The question I have is this: when the curvature is progressing, whether the appearance of pain in the chest, neck, lower back and cramps in the lower abdomen?

To physician:

S-shaped thoracolumbar scoliosis is characterized by a multitude of complications that arise due to infringement of the nerve roots in the lumbar and thoracic spine. As a consequence, disturbed blood flow to many internal organs, so pain in the chest, in the abdomen, lower back and lower extremities.

Progressive scoliosis leads to local pain syndrome in the neck, if deformed upper thoracic vertebrae. Very often similar clinical picture there is a straightening of the lordosis of the neck and signs of degenerative disc disease that causes compression of spinal nerve roots, and vertebral artery syndrome.

Vertebral artery nourishes the blood the fourth part of brain structures. Because of the lesions may be cerebral symptoms: dizziness, headache, loss of sensation on the face. All this shows the need for urgent treatment of disease.

Often in this situation, doctors recommend surgery to align the maximum scoliotic arc (in this case in the thoracic region) using metal structures. Without surgery can be treated by lateral deformation with a curvature of about 40 degrees, but the effectiveness of such therapy does not exceed 45%.

The European practice shows that marked S-shaped scoliosis not treated corset, physical therapy, pharmaceutical drugs. Such procedures should be considered as preparatory to the operation. However, progressive scoliosis is a dangerous pathology, which is better not to postpone it for the future.

Given the age of the patient at the age of 32, it is possible to assume the presence of gross anatomical changes in the vertebrae, which creates a fixed arc deformation. In this situation surgical treatment is not only unnecessary, but also an important stage of getting rid of pathology.

note that dragging pain in the abdomen in women may be a symptom of reproductive disease. To identify them you should consult a gynecologist.