Showing posts with label Scoliosis and medicine:. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Scoliosis and medicine:. Show all posts

Monday, 28 February 2011

Scoliosis, surgeons and medicine

The human body is an amazing thing and the things that medicine has achieved to enhance human life is remarkable. For me personally just starting with bones, look at how up until the breakthrough of the Harrington rod, anyone who suffered from scoliosis (like I did) depending on their curvature severity might have ended up with a spine that curved like this one....


Looking round the Royal College of Surgeons museum was fascinating and inspiring.








Thank goodness for advancement in medicine.