Can poor posture and heavy bags really cause scoliosis in children – or is it something else?

WHAT DO THE Mind AND GENDER HAVE TO DO WITH SCOLIOSIS?

The results do arouse some questions, mainly for the person. For one, what is the corticoreticular road? What does the brainstem’s cortex do? And why do women have a higher risk of AIS?

” The corticoreticular pathway connects the cortex ( the&nbsp, outermost layer of the brain that give it its wrinkly appearance ) to the brainstem, and we know that this pathway controls posture and balance”, said Professor Lo Yew Long, the study’s senior author and a senior consultant with the Department of Neurology at NNI@SGH.

The researchers were able to detect an average difference of between 2 % and 3 % between the left and right corticoreticular pathway in patients with AIS using a highly sensitive technique known as the diffusion MRI scan.

The imbalance may cause the left and right pathways to work in an imbalanced way, which over time causes more spinal curvature from a side-to-side muscle control imbalance, according to Prof Lo.

” There are no certain conclusions about the bigger pons,” according to the authors of the study. Over time, the over anomaly may be compensated for by this system. The cortex is generally about the size of your thumb, but in AIS people, it is between 8 % and 9 % larger, according to Prof. Lo.