
Originally Posted by
hdugger
I'm with Leah on the danger of all the xrays. The benefit of any conservative treatment *should* last long enough that it can be picked up during her regular exams. If you have to measure the effect 5 minutes afterwards in order to show any result, I wouldn't consider that an effective treatment.
I'm interested to see Smith's response on that.
On the head forward stuff, we also found that addressing my son's head forward posture was really helpful. His treatment cost $225 altogether (3 visits to our massage person at $75 per one-hour session; plus exercises and stretches that he does at home every day), and she managed to get him from having his head 4 inches in front of where it should be back to 1 inch in front of where it should be. He's held that improvement for over a year now.
That's great. By the way I was in no way downplaying cosmesis here. Cosmesis is a big reason why my second kid wanted fusion surgery when she saw the results of the first kid.
My point was that certain Clear guys have made claims that FHP is some type of driving "environmental" variable of a structural curve in that addressing FHP can be used to address a structural curve (or at least must be addressed ahead of hoping to make progress with a structural curve). If there is evidence for that I would like to see it. Morningstar has pointed out that boatloads of people have FHP without having scoliosis. That doesn't mean there is no connection between FHP and scoliosis but it does raise the bar for high quality evidence showing the connection.
Sharon, mother of identical twin girls with scoliosis
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