what are the odds a kid will get scoliosis if?

I heard it is aggravated by heavy book bags that kids carry with too many books for their tiny backs.

I am 16 years old and disabled i have Spinal muscular atrophy and coz of my condition it made me get scoliosis, by the time i was 8 it was 1 of the worse they had seen, 160 degrees like an S, i wore a back brace for years and when i was 8 i had metal growing rods in my back an 8 hour operation, and had them lengthened every 6 moths until i was 14. When i was 14 i had a 10 hour op to fuse my spine with stronger rods and no longer wear a brace yey lol! and my spine is now straight. Im not sure of the chances of the child getting it but i have heard that it can miss a generation so if your grandfather had it and it missed your parents then it missed a generation so maybe it will do the same again and miss the next generation.

Scoliosis usually can skip a generation. I know I have it, my mother did not. We don't know if anyone else *closely related* in my family had it. My husband has it in the same place as I and we're expecting a baby any minute now. I really and truly don't look for him to get it.

I had corrective surgery when i was 15 with a 57 degree curve. My daughter had surgery last year with an S- curve they say that have no proof that this is genetic but the doctor that did my surgery in 1984 did my 15 year old daughters surgey also. And he says he's had serveral cases. just keep a close watch. My grandmother also had it but was never treated by a doctor.

it is defenitely higher than regular population in general..but still very small...I wouldn't worry too much...

they just recently released a study of identical twins which showed that the incidence rate was extremely low that both will have scoliosis even though they are genetically identical...

There is a very strong possibility that the familial gene will affect a child..usually caught in school exam around 5-6th grades.