What other factors contribute to the onset of scoliosis curvature?

The majority of patients with scoliosis fall under the category of idiopathic scoliosis. That means, simply, we don’t know what causes it.

But there are those cases which are neurological, where there’s some kind of spinal cord or brain injury, cerebral palsy, etc.

And there’s trauma — an induced spinal cord injury.

There are congenital abnormalities of the spinal cord and of the vertebrae which lead to scoliosis.

And finally there are the so-called developmental abnormalities

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