Jean
I have been struggling with back pain for most of my life. When I was 14, my mother tried to teach me to make my own clothes. However, one of my hems was always shorter on one side as a result of one of my hips being higher than the other hip. Concerned by the irregularity, my mother, a school nurse, did a cursory examination of my back. She took me to an orthopedic surgeon and told him about the scoliosis curve that she had detected. He blew us off and told my mother to stop trying to practice medicine. So, my curve progressed. Read More

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