This guide helps you and your family decide whether surgery is right for your child. It explains neuromuscular scoliosis, the options, what an operation involves, and the benefits and risks, with the figures from published studies. You and your team will decide together what is best for your child.
Reviewed by Dr. Kshitij Chaudhary — Last reviewed October 2026
Choosing between surgery and non-surgical care can be hard. Read the pages in order, or go straight to the one you need. Page 6 has a worksheet to help your family weigh things up.
1. Key Facts to KnowWhat neuromuscular scoliosis is, what causes it and why a big curve is a problem.
2. What Are the Options?Observation, bracing, wheelchair modification and spinal fusion, with their benefits and risks.
3. How Spinal Fusion WorksWhat is done, before surgery, the day of surgery, anaesthesia and blood.
4. RecoveryIntensive care, the hospital stay, going home and the weeks after.
5. Benefits and Risks of SurgeryWhat surgery can do for your child, and how often each risk happens.
6. Things to Consider and Your Decision WorksheetQuestions to think through as a family, and a worksheet to weigh your reasons.
7. Glossary and ReferencesThe words you may hear, and the studies behind the figures.
Treatments we offer for this
Observation and regular follow-up, advice on seating and wheelchair changes, bracing, physiotherapy and scoliosis correction surgery (posterior spinal fusion with instrumentation).
About Dr. Kshitij Chaudhary
This page was written by Dr. Kshitij Chaudhary, a fellowship-trained spine surgeon at P.D. Hinduja Hospital, Mumbai, trained in complex spine surgery at Harvard Medical School (Beth Israel Deaconess) and the Twin Cities Spine Center, Minneapolis. About Dr. Chaudhary
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