How can a Schroth Method Patient-Parent Program Help your Family

by providing timely appropriate conservative scoliosis treatment for your child

to help prevent curve progression; improve body aesthetics via postural correction, and avoid spinal fusion surgery.

This is possible if patient, parent and therapist treatment goals are in harmony with one another.

With the collaboration of all three parties,

desirable and sustainable patient treatment outcomes can be achieved.

Our caring and dedicated Schroth Scoliosis Specialists can help your family.

As scoliosis research has proved, the younger the age of a child 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 and do quickly and exponentially increase; the more rapid the rate of growth, the more rapidly their scoliosis can progress.

The beginning of the pubertal growth spurt for girls is 9-10 years and for boys for 11-12 years. The peak rate of growth occurs around 18 months after the commencement of the pubertal growth spurt. For both girls and boys, this is the time when the risk of progression can be extremely high.

Key to success in preventing progression, and where possible, reducing a curve is early diagnosis and timely appropriate treatment; “Watching and Waiting” is not treatment.

Our Schroth Method Treatment Programs empower patients & their parents

Mum and Daughter

The aim of conservative treatment of juvenile and adolescent idiopathic scoliosis as espoused by The International Scientific Society on Scoliosis Orthopaedic and Rehabilitation Treatment (SOSORT) is to stop progression before puberty and avoid the need for spinal fusion surgery. The basic objectives set out in SOSORT'S 2016 guidelines are as follows:

To stop curve progression at puberty (or possibly even reduce it).
To prevent or treat respiratory dysfunction.
To prevent or treat spinal pain syndromes.
To improve aesthetics via postural correction.

As each patient's spinal curvature is unique, Schroth Method physiotherapeutic scoliosis-specific exercises (PSSEs) focuses on their muscular and postural asymmetry in order to redress their scoliosis and elongate and stabilise their spine three-dimensionally.

SOSORT's Absolute goal is to avoid spinal fusion surgery.

Timely & Appropriate Treatment & Education

Timely and appropriate conservative treatment can enhance heath related quality of life for young idiopathic scoliosis patients. This is possible if patient, parent and therapist treatment goals are in harmony with one another. With the collaboration of all three parties, desirable and sustainable treatment outcomes can be achieved.

In our Schroth Method Patient-Parent Programs the Therapist's role is to empower both the patient and their parents by providing:

A customised Schroth In-Clinic and Home Exercise Program for their specific idiopathic scoliosis curvature type.
Coaching and education in 3D auto postural correction; stabilising corrected posture; and managing activities in daily living for patient and parent.

The patient and their parents, need to commit to:

A customised Schroth In-Clinic and Home Exercise Therapy Program.

: Lumbar mobilisation

: Thoracic mobilisation

Mums and daughters engaging with gentle Schroth Method mobilisation techniques during their Schroth Patient-Parent Programs.

Schroth Method Exercises have been proven to prevent progression

Schroth physiotherapeutic scoliosis-specific exercises have been proven to: improve function; decrease Cobb angle; improve vital capacity; and reduce pain and disability; prevent progression in patients diagnosed with idiopathic scoliosis.

Schroth exercises when performed in conjunction with bracing have improved bracing outcomes in patients with curvatures greater than 40º, thus avoiding the need for spinal fusion surgery.

For information on the content, structure and scope of our Schroth Method Scoliosis Exercise Treatment Programs Click here you can download a progrm summary: