Sciatic scoliosis

[physiobob]

Are you sure that the scoliosis wasn't there first? It makes more sense IMHO to have a disc, that is squeezed unevenly, to bulge and eventually prolapse toward the convex side and that way impinge on the nerve root - create muscle weakness and the "normal" side then becomes effectively hypertonic and exaggerates the previously compensated scoliosis.

BillOst

Of course this is also a possibility. One can look for a postural, more reactive scoliosis or a more structure one by looking at boney changes on x-ray. Also comparing the deviations in sitting and standing to see if they are absent on one or the other. I suppose my response was to a question specifically about a scoliosis that resulted from a disc herniation/prolapse. There are of course numerous other reasons for this imbalance, both postural and structural.