Interventions for Scoliosis
Conservative
- Focus is on improving spinal motion, increase muscle strength, and reducing back pain
- Typically involves
- strengthening of all muscles on the convex side
- facilitated manual stabilization
- contract relax techniques
- proprioceptive training
- progressive against gravity
- stretching of all muscles on the concave side
- shoulder sweep
- prone reaching
- sidelying gravity-assisted
- quadruped rock with reach
- axial elongation stretching
- Abdominal strengthening
- Spinal extension strengthening
- Bracing: Milwaukee Orthosis as an example
- Breathing
- Endurance training - aquatics
Demonstration Video (Approximately 2 minutes)
Demonstration Video (Approximately 3.5 minutes)