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The word idiopathic just means no known cause. For a small number of you there will be someone in your family who had scoliosis before you, there is some genetic link.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are some typical x-rays before and after surgery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The information below is about the length of stay and sometimes patients need to go to intensive\/ critical care.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The word idiopathic just means no known cause. For a small number of you there will be someone in your family who had scoliosis before you, there is some genetic link. These are some typical x-rays before and after surgery. The information below is about the length of stay and sometimes patients need to go to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":10,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/widewidth.php","meta":{"_gspb_post_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"class_list":["post-501","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"rttpg_featured_image_url":null,"rttpg_author":{"display_name":"NHS Lothian","author_link":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/scottishnationalspineservice\/author\/nhs-lothian\/"},"rttpg_comment":0,"rttpg_category":false,"rttpg_excerpt":"The word idiopathic just means no known cause. For a small number of you there will be someone in your family who had scoliosis before you, there is some genetic link. These are some typical x-rays before and after surgery. The information below is about the length of stay and sometimes patients need to go to","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/scottishnationalspineservice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/scottishnationalspineservice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/scottishnationalspineservice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/scottishnationalspineservice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/scottishnationalspineservice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=501"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/scottishnationalspineservice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":816,"href":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/scottishnationalspineservice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/501\/revisions\/816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/scottishnationalspineservice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/scottishnationalspineservice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}