I get automatic notices from info@biomedcentral.com for scoliosis. this is from http://www.scoliosisjournal.com/alerts and thought I'd pass this one on. It was a case study of an adult (in her 20's) who practiced SEAS, an exercise program designed for scoliosis. She improved her curve significantly beyond the 5 percent margin of error. I have the full study if anyone wants it.
For some reason, software does not allow me to copy quote from article and I keep losing it. So just in case let me just put info in my own words here. It was a 25 yr old woman whose curve was diminished from 47 to 28.5 in the course of a year. And curve was measured blindly twice by same physician who had an excellent error rate of less than 3 degrees
Laurie
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Case Report
Adult scoliosis can be reduced through specific SEAS exercises: a case report
Negrini A, Parzini S, Negrini M, Romano M, Atanasio S, Zaina F, Negrini S
Scoliosis, 2008 3:20 ( 16 December 2008 )
[Abstract] [Provisional PDF]
Case presentation All radiographs have been measured blindly twice using the same protractor by one expert physician whose repeatability error proved to be <3° Cobb; the average measurement has been used. In this case a 25 years old female scoliosis patient, previously treated from 14(Risser1) to 19 years of age with a decrease of the curve from 46° to 37°, showed a progression of 10° Cobb in 6 years. The patient has then been treated with SEAS exercises only, and in one year progression has been reverted from 47° to28.5°.
For some reason, software does not allow me to copy quote from article and I keep losing it. So just in case let me just put info in my own words here. It was a 25 yr old woman whose curve was diminished from 47 to 28.5 in the course of a year. And curve was measured blindly twice by same physician who had an excellent error rate of less than 3 degrees
Laurie
***
Case Report
Adult scoliosis can be reduced through specific SEAS exercises: a case report
Negrini A, Parzini S, Negrini M, Romano M, Atanasio S, Zaina F, Negrini S
Scoliosis, 2008 3:20 ( 16 December 2008 )
[Abstract] [Provisional PDF]
Case presentation All radiographs have been measured blindly twice using the same protractor by one expert physician whose repeatability error proved to be <3° Cobb; the average measurement has been used. In this case a 25 years old female scoliosis patient, previously treated from 14(Risser1) to 19 years of age with a decrease of the curve from 46° to 37°, showed a progression of 10° Cobb in 6 years. The patient has then been treated with SEAS exercises only, and in one year progression has been reverted from 47° to28.5°.
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