A1: Dear Rick,
I'll give you an example of a similar but apparently more severe scoliosis case, this in a 17 yo female with late onset menses beginning at age 16. Within 6 months of onset of menses she developed a 40 degree left convex rotatory scoliosis in the lumbodorsal area as noted in full spine films from Shriners Hospital in Portland. Months of manipulation and exercise prior to her first appointment with me gave her only a day or so of relief from her symptoms. The right dorsal area was always wooden and inflexible and the left quadratus lumborum area was always in a hard knot. Symptoms consisted of severe right upper dorsal and costovertebral fixation and pain, and right periscapular, paravertebral, left lumbar, and bilateral gluteal spasm and pain. She was limited in her activities as farm chores and working with her 4H animals were very aggravating.
This patient was treated with NMT, an energetic medicine modality (not allowed class="postlink" href="http://www.nmt.md">www.nmt.md) and within 4 sessions she had no return of muscle spasticity or spinal pain and was able to tolerate relatively high levels of physical stress without any return of spasm, fixation, or pain symptoms. Although her scoliosis had progressed at lightening speed prior to her NMT treatments, there was absolutely no advance in her scoliosis over a period of 9 months as measured in comparative x-rays by the Shriners facility. Treatment frequency for the past 6 months has been once monthly.
The key for this patient was using NMT to correct autoimmune/allergy reactions to the patient's own hormones and connective tissues, and correcting habituated neuromusculoskeletal patterning that reproduced pain and spasticity. The only manipulation has been light force instrument adjusting and sometimes drop table sacroiliac and sacral adjustments.
I have given her therapy ball exercises to gradually correct the shrunken connective tissues that maintain the curvature on x-ray. She passively drapes across the ball with support at the left hip level and then the right lumbodorsal level to passively stretch connective tissues on the concave side of her curve. She also uses the ball, with exactly the opposite side support from the ball and does lateral crunches very slowly to strengthen muscles on the convex side of her curve.
In nearly 30 years as a chiropractor I have never seen an accelerating and highly symptomatic scoliosis process turn off like this prior to NMT. I expect moderate improvement in the actual measurement of the pre-existing curvature with regular use of her stretches and exercises.
Best regards,
Leslie S. Feinberg, D.C.
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