Hi Christian - this web site will help you with Schroth: http://www.schroth-skoliosebehandlung.de/home_en.php
Hi Christian - this web site will help you with Schroth: http://www.schroth-skoliosebehandlung.de/home_en.php
Thank you for the website Mamamax. it's very helpful![]()
Have you read the book yourself? And have you seen a Schroth therapist?
Hi Christian,
I ordered this book from Amazon after you mentioned it here. My biggest problem with all my back issues is a headache that has increased over time in both frequency and intensity. This summer was a bad one for pain for me, and I kept telling everyone, "If only I could get rid of the headache, I could tolerate the rest......."
The month of September is a 30 day challenge for me to do the exercises as often as possible (at home diligently, at work in my office, whenever no one is looking on the floor or even when they are) When I do them I experience hours of relief; when I don't it's headaches-as-usual. So I thank you and I'm amused that someone in Denmark turned me on to a book originating from an author in Denver. I live in Colorado.
How are you doing and what was the result of your x-ray expeditions?
Amy
Amy
58 yrs old, diagnosed at 31, never braced
Measured T-64, L-65 in 2009
Measured T-57, L-56 in 2010, different doc
2 lumbar levels spondylolisthesis
Exercising to correct
Hey Amy,
I'm glad to hear you are active in coping with your own pain. Yea, the internet is an amazing thing, makes people able to help each other from a distance![]()
I'm interested in hearing how big a difference this month can make for you. I myself have started exercising all the deep muscles of the neck and the deep abdominal muscles a lot lately, (almost an hour a day) and it feels great. I think in the long run it will pay off, and I know it's a long process. From my instructor course I learned that when you work out a muscle in the beginning, what you are really doing is learning to activate the muscle by stimulating the corresponding nerves to it. And that's great, because we want our sleeping muscles to activate so over compensative muscles don't have to de extra work resulting in stiffness.
What I'm struggling with at the moment is understanding the 3-dimensional problem that scoliosis creates (3 dimensional rotation) and understanding how to straighten the back by rotational and breathing exercises.
Here are some of the X-ray pictures that I got form the hospital
Cervical region (Neck)
http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f3...n0710/Neck.jpg
http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f3...alsideview.jpg
Thoracic region
http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f3...racicspine.jpg
http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f3...nesideview.jpg
Lumbar region
http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f3...umbarspine.jpg
http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f3...nesideview.jpg
Can you check in the Three Dimensional Treatment for Scoliosis by Christa Lehnert-Schroth, PT book on fig. 154 if your left lumbar curve is similar ? You can write me a private message .
BT
Hi everyone,
I thought It was time to update my scoliosis journal.
I have been exercising systematic and my pain has begun decreasing much (until I had a shoulder accident, and now I have to wait 3 more weeks doing elastic band rotator cuff exercises argh :P) I actually gained about 20Lb of muscle (mostly stabilizer and trunk musculature), but now I'm losing a bit while I'm recovering from shoulder injury.
I really want to correct this scoliosis more than anything in the world. I found something in the Schroth method book that I wanted to put into consideration considering the Iliopsoas and quadratus lumborum musculature.
Here is a small quote from "The three-dimensional treatment of scoliosis" regarding the Iliopsoas musculature.
Iliopsoas (p. 52)
"It affects lateral movement to the side of the contraction(...)" This means lateral flexion of the spine e.g. my right Iliopsoas will make me sidebend right (making the arch of the spinal curve go left)
"(...) and at the same time rotation to the opposite side" My right iliopsoas will pull on the transverse process so my spinal column rotates left (making the right transverse process go ventrally and the left go posteriorly)
If I have a lumbar curve going left, then my right Iliopsoas is probably pulling my lumbar spine downward (giving me a lumbar lordosis) while it's rotating my spine to the left, so I am going to stretch it very much and do some deep tissue work.
http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f3.../scoliosis.jpg
The quadratus lomborum.
The question is: In which side is the quadratus lumborum dominant or weak?
In the picture (underneath) Crista Lehnert Schroth says that "In scoilosis, this muscle works unilaterally, pulling transverse processes of lumbar spine to one side" Could it be that it attaches mostly to the posterior side of the transverse process and so the dominant side rotates the spine in opposite direction?
She further writes:
"In case of inactivity (of Quadratus L.) , this musles no longer pulls on the transverse process" This must mean that if the Quadratus L. is weak it can't counterbalance the pull of the iliopsoas (which attaches to the transverse process as well) so if my right quadratus lumborum is weak it's not counterbalancing the pull of the iliopsoas thus rotating my spine left.
In this picture the quadratus lumborum is weak on the left convex side, therefore the spine rotates right.
http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f3...umbarspine.jpg
http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f3...uslumborum.jpg
Hmm I really got to figure it out, but it's not easy and it really takes a lot of careful studying. It would be great to get some input from someone who is into anatomy.
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