Screening for Idiopathic Adolescent Scoliosis

Adapted by Richard B. Goldbloom, OC, MD, FRCPC, Department of Pediatrics, Dalhousie University from the report prepared for the US Preventive Services Task Force by Steven H. Woolf, MD, MPH

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