le scoliosis, which has it's onset between 3 and 10 years of age. These cases however are very slim and account for about 1 percent of all cases. (Warner) "Those who are female have a large spinal curve, and/or skeletal immaturities, are at the greatest risk for dangerous curvature progression." According to Dr. Reamy from the Naval Medical Center in Portsmouth, Virginia, the tree main factors of progression are patient gender, future growth potential, and the curve magnitude at the time of diagnosis. (American Family Physicians Online.) Females are ten times more likely to have scoliosis than males, and yet we still to this day are not quite sure as to what causes this disease to initiate in the first place. For the most part, scoliosis is highly hereditary among mothers and daughters. Mothers who have scoliosis have a 27 percent chance of passing the disease to their daughters, and more so depending on the severity of the curve. (Warner)
             The effects of scoliosis are too many to list. A few of the major impacts that scoliosi
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