Tag: Scoliosis

Think Your Child Needs a Scoliosis Brace? Here’s What You Need to Know

Date: May 11, 2020

Categories: Scoliosis Tags: adolescent scoliosis, Scoliosis, Scoliosis Treatment

As a parent, you do everything you can to ensure your child’s health and well-being. In some families, that means making difficult decisions regarding things like whether your son or daughter needs a scoliosis brace. Affecting millions of children around the world, adolescent idiopathic scoliosis can make it difficult – or even impossible – for youngsters to participate in many of the most common activities of adolescence. If your child has scoliosis, you’ve likely wondered [Read More...]

Schroth Scoliosis Method

Date: November 1, 2018

Categories: Scoliosis Tags: Scoliosis

TREATING SCOLIOSIS EFFECTIVELY USING THE SCHROTH SCOLIOSIS METHOD Your child needs surgery. The thoughts that roll through the mind when you hear these words are enough to raise anyone’s blood pressure. Especially when it involves something as major as a surgical procedure on the spine of your precious little one. The idea of surgery even for yourself as an adult is just plain scary, isn’t it? Before you run off and put yourself or your child [Read More...]

How Physical Therapy Improves Scoliosis

Date: March 21, 2016

Categories: Scoliosis Tags: Denver Physical Therapist, physical therapy, Scoliosis, Scoliosis Treatment

Scoliosis is an abnormality of the spine that leads to a C-shaped or S-shaped curvature of the spine. The spine is not straight as it’s supposed to be instead is curved to one or both sides. Scoliosis is a relatively painless condition; however, pain may be present if the irregular curvature of the spine stresses the surrounding muscles and joints. These alterations may change an individual’s posture, movement patterns and alignment that may lead to [Read More...]

What Is Scoliosis?

Date: January 25, 2016

Categories: Scoliosis Tags: Causes of Scoliosis, physical therapy, Scoliosis, Scoliosis Treatment

Scoliosis is not a disease, but it’s a keyword used in describing abnormality characterized by a sideways curve of the spine. A normal spine, when viewed from the back, is straight. However, with scoliosis, the curvature of the spine can go three different ways: Levoscoliosis, where the curvature of the spine goes to the side as a single curve going to the left, which forms like a letter C. Dextroscoliosis, where the curvature of the spine [Read More...]