Why do you have back pain during scoliosis?
Scoliosis is an abnormal curve in the spine. It is frequently unstable, (in other words, it gets worse over time) and can effect all sorts of connections from the spine to other parts of the body. For example, the ribs abutting up to the spine could be out of alignment. This can even affect your breathing if sufficiently severe. Not only that, but your spine is a stack of about 72 small joints. If those go out of alignment, they can put pressure on the tissues that cushion each bone in the stack from the other. This means that the disks get stressed, swell or get damaged. The third way you get back pain comes from uneven distribution of muscle stress across the back. If the spine curves more towards one side, then muscles get over extended on one side, and not enough on the other. Then, if you move one way, you risk injuring those muscles, and on the other, the muscles get easily fatigued.It can also cause disruption of free movement in your shoulders, hips and tail bone. Because the nerves running across your back are fairly sparse and lack specific sensitivity, even things like shoulder or pain from the hip socket, or even problems with muscles along the ribs can be perceived as back pain.