Scoliosis treatment Specialists

Schroth Method Scoliosis Exercise Treatment

Dealing with scoliosis can feel overwhelming, you would like to take positive steps, either for yourself, your daughter or son, but you’re not sure what can be done.

An experienced Schroth Method ISST ScoliosisTherapist can show you a way forward.

Our Schroth Method Scoliosis Therapy Centre offers compassionate and supportive treatment in a safe environment where you can learn how to apply proven Schroth Method techniques in a personalised way to achieve desirable and sustainable outcomes, enabling you to take back control of your scoliosis.

Taking back control of your scoliosis translates to enhancing your quality of life:

Improving posture, function and mobility, reducing pain and disability, preventing curve progression, and avoiding surgery.

"In my late thirties, my scoliosis had progressed from 27 to 37 degrees in just two years - and the back pain was almost unbearable without daily medication...it’s been three months since I finished the Schroth program and I feel like a completely different person - physically, mentally, and emotionally."

Dilshaad, Hong Kong, July 2025

Schroth Method Evidence Based Exercise Treatment

Schroth Method exercises are now recognised internationally as an effective evidence based holistic treatment option(opens in new tab) in the rehabilitation of idiopathic scoliosis patients.

Customized to meet your specific pattern of scoliosis our Schroth Method exercise treatment is delivered with compassion to address your concerns about the visible and, in many cases, painful symptoms of your scoliosis.

As with each patient, your spinal curvature is unique, Schroth Method exercise treatment focuses on your muscular and postural asymmetry in order to redress your scoliosis. You learn how to effectively self correct your scoliotic posture(opens in new tab) and transition to a balanced, aligned and upright posture, elongating and stabilising your spine three-dimensionally.

To take back control of scoliosis, It's of paramount importance that you, (your child) and therapist work closely together, drawing off each other's strengths to achieve desirable and sustainable treatment outcomes(opens in new tab),

Prevent curvature progression
Improve aesthetics
Improve function
Decrease cobb angles (curvatures)
Improve vital capacity
Reduce pain and disability

In the case of your child, when Schroth Method exercises are performed in conjunction with adolescent bracing, they have improved bracing outcomes in patients with curvatures >40º, thus avoiding the need for spinal fusion surgery.

Adolescent & Adult idiopathic Scoliosis

Adolescents

Adolescent idiopathic scolioisis (AIS) accounts for 80% of all scoliosis cases. ”It’s estimated that females are 10 times more likely to develop AIS, before the age of 10, than males. [and] A girl diagnosed with scoliosis is approximately 10 times likely to experience progression than boys of the same age." Adolescent Scoliosis(opens in new tab)

Having a child diagnosed with Idiopathic Scoliosis, can be a traumatic experience for most parents, often there is a daunting feeling despair.

Scoliosis research has confirmed that the younger the child is when diagnosed with scoliosis, the greater their risk of progression as they still have a lot more growth to go before they reach skeletal maturity. During the adolescent (pubertal) growth spurt, scoliosis curves can rapidly and exponentially increase; the faster the rate of growth, the more rapidly their scoliosis can progress.

Finding a treatment option you feel confident with is a key step for both you and your child. Timely and appropriate conservative treatment for Juveniles and Adolescents can prevent curvature progression and avoid spinal fusion surgery.

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Adults

Adult idiopathic scoliosis is the continuation of scoliosis since adolescence. In adulthood, curvatures <30° are unlikely to progress. However, without treatment, curvatures >30° potentially will progress whilst curvatures >50° tend to continue to progress at 0.5-1° per year. Adult Scoliosis(opens in new tab)

Major Types of Idiopathic Scoliosis

If you would like to learn more about the visible symptoms (clinical characteristics) of your own or your child's type of idiopathic scoliosis then click on the following pages for a comprehensive explanation:

Living with Scoliosis and the opportunity for enhanced quality of life

Patients "stories' briefly detailing their life experiences "living with scoliosis" and their engagement with our 6 day Schroth Program (opens in new tab)may resonate with you:

Michelle, Kyneton, Vic, 26 June 2026
"To say that the experience of attending the Scoliosis Therapy Centre and learning about Schroth Method Scoliosis Exercise Treatment has changed my life is an understatement."
Dilshaad, South Africa, July 2025.
"It's been 3 months since I finished the Schroth program. I feel like a completely different person - physically, mentally and emotionally.''
Pui Ling, Canberra, ACT - 21 April 2025.
"The Schroth program is the most specific and intensive program scoliosis program I have found...tailored to my spine...it has provided me with life long training in how to stand, sit, walk, sleep, move nad breath to best de-roate my body."
Mary, Adelaide, SA - 31 January 2025.
"With the knowledge I have gained together with the Schroth home exercise program, tailored to my needs, I have taken back control of my own wellbeing, something I have wanted to do for the past 30 years."
Irene, Sydney, NSW - 25 February 2023
"The Schroth Method has empowered me. My scoliosis is no longer a negative and painful daily life experience."

To access these patients full "stories", and others Click Here.(opens in new tab)

Schroth Method Scoliosis Exercise Treatment Program

Treatment Program (opens in new tab)and Schroth Method Patient-Parent Program(opens in new tab)

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A Team Approach To Care & Treatment

In providing Schroth Method exercise treatment for our patients we adhere to the Society on Scoliosis Orthopaedic and Rehabilitation Treatment (SOSORT) 2016 guidelines(opens in new tab) which advocate a team approach: Orthopaedic Specialists, Orthotists, Therapists and other medical professionals collaborating in the treatment and care of idiopathic scoliosis patients.