[QUOTE=flerc;120728]Patricia, maybe I not understand correctly what you are saying.
Do you gained 1/2 inch in height when you are standing in a natural way? If it's true, then you should have reduced degrees.
Yes, I was measured at my doctor's office and I stand in my corrections, which must be the posture that I try to maintain at all times. (Think of an army officer - and his or her posture. A drill sargent would be helpful to keep me in shape. I also keep a mental picture of the Buckingham palace guards who stand at attention 8 hrs/day.)
But this spring I came down with a virus that kept me mainly in bed for a week and then just laying around for a month (no exercising) I lost 10 lbs. But it was getting late to put in my garden and I unwisely did that instead of my schroth exercises. I have developed a very deblitating sharp pain low on the right side of my spine, something i never had before.
But i have resumed my exercises and hope to regain some of my former strength. But that is the problem with a treatment based on an exercise program -self discipline. I thought I had the discipline to keep it up. Time will tell. But after talking to someone who had surgery at my age (also with a major curve) I think i will still put my money on an exercise program. (The surgeon at Emory clinic thought that I would need front and back incisiions.)
i just wish there was a Schroth practitioner in the Atlanta area so I could continue the exercises under supervision.
Patricia
Do you gained 1/2 inch in height when you are standing in a natural way? If it's true, then you should have reduced degrees.
Yes, I was measured at my doctor's office and I stand in my corrections, which must be the posture that I try to maintain at all times. (Think of an army officer - and his or her posture. A drill sargent would be helpful to keep me in shape. I also keep a mental picture of the Buckingham palace guards who stand at attention 8 hrs/day.)
But this spring I came down with a virus that kept me mainly in bed for a week and then just laying around for a month (no exercising) I lost 10 lbs. But it was getting late to put in my garden and I unwisely did that instead of my schroth exercises. I have developed a very deblitating sharp pain low on the right side of my spine, something i never had before.
But i have resumed my exercises and hope to regain some of my former strength. But that is the problem with a treatment based on an exercise program -self discipline. I thought I had the discipline to keep it up. Time will tell. But after talking to someone who had surgery at my age (also with a major curve) I think i will still put my money on an exercise program. (The surgeon at Emory clinic thought that I would need front and back incisiions.)
i just wish there was a Schroth practitioner in the Atlanta area so I could continue the exercises under supervision.
Patricia
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