The Cobb angle. It’s big, bold, been around forever, easy to point to in clinic and say, “That’s the problem.” But what if the Cobb angle isn’t the real troublemaker for your adult degenerative scoliosis (ADS) patients’ hips?
What if the real culprit is that quiet, often-overlooked metric sitting on the coronal plane…apical vertebral translation (AVT)?
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