The medical history (history of the patient) represents an important component in the diagnosis of scoliosis.
Family history
- Is there a history of frequent bone/joint disease in your family?
Social history
- What is your profession?
Current medical history/systemic history (somatic and psychological complaints).
- What symptoms have you noticed?
- Restriction of mobility
- Malposition, later with fixation
- Back pain
- How long have these changes existed?
- Have you noticed any changes in the spine?
- Lumbar bulge
- Rib hump
- Asymmetry of the skull
- Shoulder, chest or pelvic asymmetry / pelvic obliquity.
- Osteoarthritis
- Chondrosis – degenerative cartilage disease
- Spondylosis – degenerative spinal disease deformation of the vertebral bodies.
- Are there any other changes in the body?
- Is the course of the disease progressive?
Vegetative anamnesis incl. nutritional anamnesis
Self anamnesis incl. medication anamnesis
- Time of menarche (onset of first menstrual period)? [with the onset of menarche slowing of growth and about 2-2.5 years after growth arrest]
- Pre-existing conditions
- Constraint as an infant? Other possible indications: Flattening of the occiput, habitual torticollis, flexible rib bulge (“hump”), general body asymmetry.
- Diseases of bones / joints
- Systemic diseases)
- Birth history: was there any prenatal distress?
- Operations
- Allergies
- Medication history