I'm in agreement about the quacks. It's both infuriating and heart-breaking.
Maybe I'm mistaken, but I believe there have been significant breakthroughs (although definately not cures) in exercise-based scoliosis treatments. Just a few years ago, when my son was diagnosed, all I read is that "no exercise treatment has ever reversed a curve." Now, what I read is "exercise has not been shown to have a lasting effect" So, somewhere in those intervening few years, exercise *has* been shown to reverse curves (although, again, not permanently). Even so, reversing signficant curves is an advance, and it's changed the question from "how do we reduce a curve" to "how do we hold the reduction." In my opinion, that's a huge step. It's nothing like a cure, but it is an advance.
Maybe I'm mistaken, but I believe there have been significant breakthroughs (although definately not cures) in exercise-based scoliosis treatments. Just a few years ago, when my son was diagnosed, all I read is that "no exercise treatment has ever reversed a curve." Now, what I read is "exercise has not been shown to have a lasting effect" So, somewhere in those intervening few years, exercise *has* been shown to reverse curves (although, again, not permanently). Even so, reversing signficant curves is an advance, and it's changed the question from "how do we reduce a curve" to "how do we hold the reduction." In my opinion, that's a huge step. It's nothing like a cure, but it is an advance.
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