How titanium can help

Horrific disease: “They called me a camel”

Leonie with her mother Lisa and brother Markus(Bild: klemens groh)

An insidious disease and its consequences. In scoliosis sufferers, the spine becomes deformed beyond recognition and even breathing becomes a torture for many patients. Doctors in Vienna are fighting against this with titanium.

When Leonie is already in pain when she sits, the children in her class call her a camel. Because of the hump that has grown out of her back, a growth that pulls her body to one side at an angle. The camel returns to the classroom. And then laughter.