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Family shares experience with scoliosis: What to know
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — June is Scoliosis Awareness Month, which has a local family sharing their story.
Jenna Bathke has had scoliosis since she was a teenager.
'I had a sports injury my eighth grade year, and so it was with the chiropractor that he noticed that I had, one leg was longer than the other. So that started the whole scoliosis process for me,' Jenna Bathke said.
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Jenna's mother and sister have scoliosis as well. Just a few months ago, they also found out her daughter Brooke has scoliosis.
'Brooke has a very common form of scoliosis- adolescent idiopathic scoliosis. It's maybe 80% of what we see in the scoliosis realm. There are other kinds of scoliosis that make up smaller fractions, but hers is fairly algorithmic in its treatments. And she has a moderate curve that's usually treated with bracing at her age,' Sanford Pediatric Orthopedic Surgeon, Dr. William Hadden said.
'I had always kind of had it on the back of my mind to keep an eye out for it. And then, Brooke had pneumonia back in October, and the x-rays, whoever reviewed those at Sanford had noted that there was a curvature in the spine,' Bathke said.
They are also evaluating Brooke's little sister Ellee at today's appointment, considering the family history.
'Nobody's identified the gene profile that leads to scoliosis exactly. Yet we do see it run in families, though, so it's not surprising that she has family members with scoliosis, too,' Hadden said.
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'if you have any concerns to just bring it up to your primary care doctor at their annual exams. It's a quick check, basically, to see if there's any sort of, imbalance between the left side and the right side of their back is one good notification of it and then, I think just the earlier the detection of it, the better,' Bathke said.
At the check-up, they found out that Ellee also has scoliosis.
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