Modern concepts of treatment of spinal deformities in children and adults.

This is a review of 30 years' experience with spinal deformities and includes the methods of analysis and treatment that have stood the test of time and are still basic in the treatment of scoliosis and kyphosis. Experience with all newer forms of treatment of the common idiopathic types of scoliosis, juvenile kyphosis, both the postural and the progressive forms, and the basic problems of ordinary congenital malformations of the spine, including recorrection of iatrogenic failures of treatment in adults, is evaluated in terms of the responses to newer modalities of treatment.