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I think so too but any research into conservative treatment like PT for progression will undoubtedly have a knock on in the effect on pain.

Susan, I am so glad you are feeling much better. Yes those staples can be nasty, oh well they are gone now for both of us. But I am sorry you are...

Marianne, I am so-o-o-o-o-o much better without staples. Yikes, they hurt! Apparently that is the closure of choice for the Spine Fellow. Never...

The other thing his and correct me if I'm wrong but SOSORTS is concerned with finding PT to address progression only and not pain.

I suspect you got an incompetent person and now are ascribing that incompetence to the whole of PT. If my personal trainer who is NOT a doctor of...

my point is that i have found this out by trial and error and doing endless research and also having first had to suffer the physical pain from...

Then don't do those exercises. My trainer does not do exercises with me that cause pain. We don't need research on this.

No absolutely not! Plenty of people get injured and have to go to rehab who have not had surgery. What happens to a person who hurts themselves very...

Susan I hope you are feeling better now that your staples are out! Had my 6 week follow up appointment with Dr. Wilson last week and all is well....

the feeding into the curve is a BAD thing - some exercises that do this can exacerbate a curve. We are never talking about curve reduction!

The rehab people are for rehab after surgery. quite different- and this is only for a short duration of time. We are talking about PT for people...

??? The core is PREDOMINANTLY the abdominal muscles along with back muscles and pelvic muscles. When my trainer and I do core work, 95% of the time...

Because the spine is in the torso. I am not sure what you are asking. I would like to see their comments on that Maryland Med center site. ...

Burdle, addressing "wasted muscles around the curve" *IS* building core. They are one and the same. It is known which muscles are around the curve...

Whys is a strong core the only exercise for core reduction? And even if it is it is the method to get it that I question. I am talking about...

Strong core is the ONLY possible advice for people with scoliosis. That is what works for people with scoliosis if PT can help. By targeted I...

Exactly -SRS are just pushing a strong core - that is the same advise for everybody - with or without scoliosis with or without pain. That's...

Here is the SRS stating the obvious... the point is building core and increasing flexibility and ALL that is known how to do... ...

Burdle, addressing "wasted muscles around the curve" *IS* building core. They are one and the same. It is known which muscles are around the curve...

I don't think there is any evidence that a non-targeted approach helps anyone-. People do not use PT to avoid scoliosis surgery as much as use it to...

Burdle what I am saying is to the extent that people with pain from scoliosis have been able to avoid surgery with PT, AND given there is no specific...

this really isnt the case with physios in uk. for one thing a gp is unlikely to refer you for scoliosis pain. The ones on Nhs Have no training in...

and sometimes- like - now - i just cant cope with it. and i hate.myself for saying so but it is very hard.

Ed... In all non-congenital scoliosis, the vertebrae within the curve become wedged in the coronal plane. So, one might train the muscles to hold...

Here are a few videos from the masters, Dr's Cotrel and Dr Dubousset. They invented the CD system years ago in 1983. Both of these scoliosis surgeons...

There are specific exercises that "might" target scoliosis, the only way to know if this allowed people to dodge surgery, would be with a poll or...

Yes and these people know their stuff. There are not a million ways to exercise muscles in the core so as to hope to decrease pain. I think the...

The trend is definitely toward DPT. Probably 90-95% of the UCSF PTs are DPTs. I suspect, however, that that's a lot less true in smaller...

Another way to look at this is surgeons routinely prescribe PT for pain associated with scoliosis in adults before recommending surgery as far as I...

I will venture that any experienced general trainer can tell you exactly how to work whatever muscles you want to work. If you know what muscles you...