Thoracic mobilization + pull up bar?

[littleone]

I have been reading more and more about options on how to help scoliosis. I posted before a link to a site of a guy who had his scoliosis fixed thru some kind of exercises.

I was thinking, and it makes logic, that to help our spine to move is to losen them from each other, right? so I dont know if this makes sense, but I was thinking that what if I start working on below exercises to losen and extend my thoracic spine and then hang in a bar for few minutes? the hanging step should allow my spine to center and stretch, right?

Below are the exercises I will start with
http://stronglifts.com/how-to-improv...acic-mobility/
http://www.marksdailyapple.com/how-t...pine-mobility/

i actually did both the foam roller one and the tennis balls and wow, did my spine tick tack? yes it did and damn it felt good afterward like a massage. I am installing the bar tomorrow.. the guy I was talking about who fixed his back used this kind of chair that flips and becomes upside down to stretchen the spine..

What do you think of this? will this help? has anyone tried it?

[jrnyc]

no, it will not "fix" scoliosis...there is no "fix"...
not hanging upside down, nor from a bar, nor on an inversion table...
you might want to search for other threads about "hanging" from a bar...
there are several

jess

[Elisa]

I had a quick look through those sites and some of the exercises do seem quite interesting. The only one my son has tried and that's fairly recent, is the hanging bar one. He hangs upside down several times a day on the bar installed in his bedroom closet and he says it really helps stretch out his spine and it loosens up the muscles in his back which he revers to as "kinks". I don't think it's going to "fix his scoliosis" but it does seem to help him alleviate the backaches he gets so that's encouraging.