Source: Wikimedia Commons and Whitman, Royal, 1857
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Scoliosis doesn’t live in two dimensions. It twists, rotates, and sneaks around the transverse plane while our classifications politely pretend not to notice.

For decades, we’ve measured curves on anterior posterior and lateral radiographs, talked Cobb angles, assigned Lenke types, and then mentally filled in the rest. Useful? Absolutely. Complete? Not quite.


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