4 month stability
Taking one more swing at this...
My one daughter has has two documented 6-month periods where her curve did not increase measurably. Based just on how her back looked in the last three months which comes on the heels of a previously documented 6 month period of stability...
had she been enrolled in that study, she would have been counted as a SUCCESS for exercising for sure at four months and very likely for 8 months. All in the PLUS column for exercise stabilizing curves.
Please raise your hand if you doubt that for a single second.
Yet back in reality, she didn't do a lick of targeted exercise and not much exercise to speak of at all. And STILL her curve definitely didn't increase measurably in the 6 months and very likely still hasn't progressed measurably by 8 months.
Thus the researchers would have been fooled into thinking the exercise caused the stability. This study should be a poster child for the need for control groups or at least documented high curvature rates.
Unless and until they can demonstrate the patients in the study were in a growth spurt or otherwise had a documented high rate of curvature right before entering the study, they simply can't make the conclusions they did.
FULL STOP.
Taking one more swing at this...
My one daughter has has two documented 6-month periods where her curve did not increase measurably. Based just on how her back looked in the last three months which comes on the heels of a previously documented 6 month period of stability...
had she been enrolled in that study, she would have been counted as a SUCCESS for exercising for sure at four months and very likely for 8 months. All in the PLUS column for exercise stabilizing curves.
Please raise your hand if you doubt that for a single second.
Yet back in reality, she didn't do a lick of targeted exercise and not much exercise to speak of at all. And STILL her curve definitely didn't increase measurably in the 6 months and very likely still hasn't progressed measurably by 8 months.
Thus the researchers would have been fooled into thinking the exercise caused the stability. This study should be a poster child for the need for control groups or at least documented high curvature rates.
Unless and until they can demonstrate the patients in the study were in a growth spurt or otherwise had a documented high rate of curvature right before entering the study, they simply can't make the conclusions they did.
FULL STOP.
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