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LindaRacine
I've never met a scientist who didn't speak carefully. However I think you might have misunderstood the study or maybe what Dr. Asher said. Clearly I wasn't there so I can't know for sure.
From the abstract:
I've never read a bracing study that found 100% success for 20 to 40 degree curves. I'm going to get the full study and I'm fairly sure that many children had a reduction in their curve.
The researchers only worked with the children for 8 months during which time their curves were stable. When the researchers followed up at 24 months and measured their curves a third of the children had progression. This suggests that training has to continue until skeletal maturity for the therapy to remain effective. 8 months of training does not cure a child's Scoliosis. I would imagine that whatever muscle asymmetry was present before training finds a way to slowly come back if training is stopped.
If this therapy required an hour of powerlifting a day that might be too much burden for many kids. But it's only 20 to 30 minutes a week. Most people could and SHOULD exercise that much for the rest of their life let alone until their spine is done growing.
LindaRacine
I've never met a scientist who didn't speak carefully. However I think you might have misunderstood the study or maybe what Dr. Asher said. Clearly I wasn't there so I can't know for sure.
From the abstract:
Patients received a 4-month supervised followed by a 4-month home trunk rotational strength training program.
For patients with 20 to 40-degree curves, survivorship from main curve progression of >or=6 degrees was 100% (wow) at 8 months, but decreased to 64% at 24 months.
It appeared to help stabilize curves in the 20 to 40-degree ranges for 8 months, but not for 24 months. Periodic additional supervised strength training may help the technique to remain effective, although additional experimentation will be necessary to determine this.
If this therapy required an hour of powerlifting a day that might be too much burden for many kids. But it's only 20 to 30 minutes a week. Most people could and SHOULD exercise that much for the rest of their life let alone until their spine is done growing.
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