'I don’t get any pain when I’m playing': Dancer and camogie player is a scoliosis success story

Eleven-year-old Helen Gleeson was diagnosed with scoliosis as a baby but has been successfully treated at Crumlin Hospital. Picture: Dan Linehan

At just 11 months old, Helen Gleeson was diagnosed with scoliosis and a spinal tumour but now at 11 years old she is playing camogie, Gaelic football, soccer, and learning sean-nós dancing. 

It is not the image we usually have of children with this devastating spinal condition.