Maria Talks Back

19/01/2025

"On August 11, 2024, my protector, my hero, my Dad, passed away."

https://mariatalksback.blogspot.com/2025/01/rip-dad.html

02/11/2023

https://mariatalksback.blogspot.com/2023/11/remembering-grandpa.html

Forty years. It's been 40 years, but I remember it so vividly. I was a senior at Montclair State College, a commuter school. Grandpa had ...

14/03/2023

New post alert!!

My twisted sister Mary and I have discussed the risks of falling, When we were younger, we didn't understand why falling is more common—an...

01/06/2022

June is Scoliosis Awareness Month!

25/08/2021

How I wish the National Scoliosis Foundation existed when I was in a Milwaukee brace and, later, post-scoliosis surgery!

If you are able, please consider supporting this wonderful organization.

24/09/2020

I was raised to respect and trust the police. Always. But as reports (and video footage) involving “bad cops” have become widespread, I c...

14/02/2020

Wow

The Schroth Method is still rare in the United States, and only a few physical therapists use it in Kentucky.

28/07/2018

New post!

If you know anything about me, you know I've had a lot of experience being a patient. Too much. As I've gotten older, I've also become mor...

19/07/2018

Had to post, since the dateline is my hometown in NJ!

In my case, the curvature was not necessarily severe; it was not responding to brace treatment.

WEST ORANGE, N.J., July 18, 2018 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Scoliosis, characterized by an abnormal curve of the spine, is seen most often in girls between the a...

18/06/2018

"Raeford’s platform going into the Miss North Carolina pageant is 'Beat the Curve: Raising Scoliosis Awareness.' ”

For the first time since 2008, Wilson County will be represented in the Miss North Carolina Pageant. The Miss Wilson Scholarship Pageant was resurrected last year and crowned a new Miss Wilson in …

02/04/2018

(HealthDay)—In the surgical correction of pediatric scoliosis, black race is independently associated with increased estimated blood loss, increased rate of blood transfusion, and increased amount of blood transfused, according to a study published online March 9 in Pediatric Anesthesia.

28/11/2017

Wow.

A new option to treat scoliosis in children could help some kids avoid multiple surgeries to reposition pins as they age.