Originally posted by flerc
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Then he backpedaled a little bit and gave more credit to the bones, discs, ligaments and tendons. He said that after casting, the ligaments shorten and need to be rehabilitated to get stretched out. I applied that to a brace basically curing scoliosis, which also doesn't happen.
So the truth lies somewhere in between. I think every case is unique and should be treated that way.
My REAL argument here was that if there are connective tissue problems with the ligaments around the spine, then they wouldn't be able to rehabilitate them because the protein make-up of those ligaments may not be "normal". They would have to do biopsies on the ligaments around the spine to know for sure. The problem with that is that this could not be easily done unless someone was already having surgery. The "control" would have to come from cadavers, as I can't imagine any "healthy" person wanting to undergo a ligament biopsy of the spine.
I, too, am confused with hysterical scoliosis and non-structural scoliosis. The only conclusion I could come up with for the non-structural scoliosis was that there was some sort of severe connective tissue disorder involved.
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