
When the Neck Injury Doesn’t Fit the Standard Protocol
A peer-reviewed case from Cureus | March 2026
Dr. Justin M. Dick, DC | Scoliosis Specialist & Researcher | CLEAR Fellow | 8 PubMed publications | Clear Life Scoliosis, Charlotte NC | Sherman College Field Doctor | clearlifescoliosis.com
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A peer-reviewed case from Cureus | March 2026

## I published a case series in Cureus this spring on two geriatric patients with a history of adolescent idiopathic scoliosis, and I want to walk through the reasoning behind it, because the finding runs against how most of us are trained to think about scoliosis pain in older adults.

Reviewing my latest publication in Cureus: “A Non-surgical Multimodal Approach to Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis (Lenke 5C) Using an Intensive Two-Week CLEAR Institute Protocol: A Report of Two Cases” (Cureus, January 2026, DOI: 10.7759/cureus.102006)

BackGenius and the Neurochemistry of Scoliosis.

A clinical observation from the inaugural Carolinas Scoliosis Screening Initiative, June 25 2026