Growing Pains, Pelvic Clues, and the Quest for Skeletal Truth

If managing adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS) sometimes feels like playing detective, then skeletal maturity is your most elusive suspect. The growth spurt window? Critical. The timing of intervention? Everything. And yet, surgeons are still flipping between hand films, pelvis radiographs, and maturity scales like they’re decoding ancient runes.