Scoliosis Treatment in Phoenix

While the current conventional medical thinking for scoliosis in this country is locked into using a hard brace, surgery (or in the case of an adult, nothing at all) we take a vastly different approach to scoliosis treatment.

Corrective Movement Principle

By utilizing Corrective Movement Principles in our scoliosis treatment programs which that recognizes that motor patterns of dysfunction are at the heart of spinal scoliosis and in order to correct proper neuromuscular reeducation is needed in a specific direction.  By providing proper strength and stability to these weakened postural structures surrounding the spine it is possible to stop and possibly even reverse many scoliosis curvatures.

As a central component of our movement treatment protocols we often utilize a Spine Cor dynamic corrective scoliosis brace because, unlike the standard hard, static brace Spine Cor provides gentle constraint induced movement therapy that reinforces movements of the torso toward toward correction while it is being worn.

For this reason, calling Spine Cor a brace is somewhat of a misnomer, because it is less like a brace and more like a rehabilitative therapy device that is worn by the patient to provides corrective neural postural re-programing to the body. The braces elastic bands work much like Physio-tape does in athletic injuries when rehabilitating a sports injury.

Originally designed by two orthopedic surgeons, Dr. Christine Collaird and Dr. Charles Rivard at St. Justine’s Orthopedic Hospital for Children in Canada, Spine Cor has become increasingly utilized by doctors to treat both adolescents and adults. The doctors and St. Justine’s originally came up with the idea of using a dynamic brace as a way to provide corrective forces to remodel the discs and vertebra without de-weighting them, which was found to weaken bone.

They were also concerned with the low rate of compliance with patients placed in static braces and the negative psychological impact these bulky hard braces had on the children that did wear them.

They also held that these hard braces were too restrictive for patient’s as they do not encourage corrective movement. Instead the immobilization tends to encourage atrophy of already weakened postural muscle of the scoliosis.  The development of the Spine Cor brace was a revolutionary shift the approach to non-surgical scoliosis bracing.  This new approach was more in line with other corrective movement therapies as it tended to work with them, instead of against them as a hard brace doe.

The soft Spine Cor brace fits comfortably under their cloths and is easily concealed so no one even has to know you are wearing it, but even more important than comfort is the fact that the clinic studies show excellent results.

Our doctors helped pioneer the use of the Spine Cor brace for adults. We find that adult patients benefit greatly with their pain relief and can reduce or eliminate a reliance on pain medications.

(For more adult and adolescent patient success stories see the Youtube Channel – Scoldoc)

Another important component to our neural postural reprogramming scoliosis treatments are the Schroth Method scoliosis exercises. The Schroth Method was initially created by Katharina Schroth  in Germany in 1927 for her scoliosis condition. A conservative method of treatment that works with exercises to elongate the trunk and correct the imbalance of the body by using special breathing techniques that help change the shape of the thorax that is often misshaped with scoliosis.

These corrective breathing techniques are especially useful for restoring the flattened areas of the back called the weak side. The muscles of a weak point ventral flat zone are strengthened to  enable corrections from the inside. By addressing habitual, unhealthy postures Schroth can help create new corrected postural patterns and movement habits.

This specific scoliosis exercise method enables the patient to perform them on their own at home. Patients are also taught to monitor their own posture alignment during their activities of normal daily living that helps patients to preserve their own well being and improve the signs and symptoms of scoliosis.  By correcting deformity of the trunk it greatly reduces the chances of scoliosis progression while improving cardio –respiratory dysfunction, reduction of pain, improving mobility and postural stability.

By combining these approaches we provide our patients with a synergistic corrective movement therapy program that can help stop the progression and possibly even reverse some of scoliosis curvatures.

For a FREE Phone Consultation to discuss your case with to one of our doctors to see if our non-surgical treatment options are right for you, call us at (602) 904-6685. We will have a doctor in your area get back to you within 24 hours.
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Dr. Marc Lamantia, D.C.

Spine Cor Systems of Phoenix
2735 West Hills Drive Suite #102
Phoenix, AZ 85027
(602) 904-6685