I've looked at some of the information posted on this and other threads about side shift exercises. I only found a few photos. I'm not clear about how the person keeps other body parts stable while shifting the spine. It seems to me that the hips and/or shoulders would shift, at least slightly.
In terms of musculature and asymmetry, I can see how these would be variables in the scoliosis puzzle (at least for some patients). But I'm curious about dancers. My daughter is a dancer and I've read on this and other sites that dancers have a higher prevalence of scoliosis than the general population but dancers are quite strong--not muscular like body builders or football players but pound-per-pound my daughter is the strongest person in our family. Also she has done mostly ballet which emphasizes symmetry, yet her convex side is weaker than her concave side and has continued to be so even though she's been doing PT for 6 months. She does have a leg-length discrepancy of 1/4" but I'm not sure how that would relate to the imbalance in muscles. She's been using a lift since diagnosis.
In terms of musculature and asymmetry, I can see how these would be variables in the scoliosis puzzle (at least for some patients). But I'm curious about dancers. My daughter is a dancer and I've read on this and other sites that dancers have a higher prevalence of scoliosis than the general population but dancers are quite strong--not muscular like body builders or football players but pound-per-pound my daughter is the strongest person in our family. Also she has done mostly ballet which emphasizes symmetry, yet her convex side is weaker than her concave side and has continued to be so even though she's been doing PT for 6 months. She does have a leg-length discrepancy of 1/4" but I'm not sure how that would relate to the imbalance in muscles. She's been using a lift since diagnosis.
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