If managing adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS) sometimes feels like playing detective, then skeletal maturity is your most elusive suspect. The growth spurt window? Critical. The timing of intervention? Everything. And yet, surgeons are still flipping between hand films, pelvis radiographs, and maturity scales like they’re decoding ancient runes.
Which gives rise to this recently published, peer-reviewed validation study which, essentially, posts the following question: Can the pelvis really tell us what the hand already knows?
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