Less invasive spinal procedure speeds healing
Catherine Braun was diagnosed with scoliosis in her early 20s, but it was only within the last three to four years that her condition got so bad that she couldn’t walk without pain. “I used to walk three miles a day with my dogs, but I couldn’t do that any more because I couldn’t stand up straight,” the 57-year-old New Lenox woman said. When other treatments fail, patients like Braun with severe scoliosis undergo surgery to correct the abnormal curvature of the spine.