We provide scoliosis treatment for adults or teenagers with intelligent, gentle, non-surgical methods. Some scoliosis doctors recommend forceful, or outright invasive scoliosis treatment, when non-invasive scoliosis treatment should be the first recommendation.
Your best first choice for a scoliosis expert is an integrative chiropractor.
Scoliosis treatment
We know scoliosis does not have a quick fix. A good scoliosis doctor in Los Angeles will not use an overly simplistic one-cause/one-cure methodology. Scoliosis treatment in teenagers is not just daily exercises or stretches. Successful scoliosis treatment requires a comprehensive step-by-step plan. Our plan includes the causal factors contributing to spinal curvature in the first place. So we address: subtle alterations in brain function, spinal mechanics, the neuro-emotional, environmental, and internal cofactor aspects.
Scoliosis doctor’s expert opinion
Scoliosis is NOT just a mechanical condition. It’s not just a misalignment that needs stretching. A scoliosis specialist does not make the correction with muscle strengthening exercises alone. Teen scoliosis treatment and scoliosis prevention must address root neurological causes, including the brain’s ability to manage muscle tone. We don’t limit the treatment to only the mechanical factors, like with: exercises, spinal adjustments, and stretching. Treatments may include addressing functional brain neurology. It is like retraining aspects of balance and coordination from your brain to your back. A scoliosis specialist brings greater resiliency to stressors of the brain-spine-muscle axis, via gentle, corrective, restorative techniques.
Stopping pain from scoliosis does not require full correction of the curvature. Full correction of a scoliotic curvature is also rare. In adults, curvature correction may be minimal, but your ability to function with less pain and dysfunction is our goal. In teenagers, there is a greater chance to make a correction of the curvature. You just need a doctor who uses a comprehensive, multi factorial, chiropractic model of care.
Aspects of scoliosis treatment Los Angeles
The founder of chiropractic, Dr. D.D. Palmer, said that subluxations of the vertebrae (which we can translate as spinal malfunction and nerve dysfunction) have three causes. Those causes are: trauma (physical strain or injury), toxins (environmental factors, including diet), and “autosuggestion” (thoughts/emotions). We address those 3 components; the emotions part with a wonderful, non-psychological method called neuro-emotional-technique (NET).
Environmental toxins: recent research shows that gene expression (not permanent, or “genetic”) can play a role in adolescent scoliosis development. This is about epigenetics (things that influence our genes), such as our environmental surroundings. This is treatable via clinical nutrition, otherwise known as natural functional medicine. Nutritional co-factors also play a role in “idiopathic scoliosis.” So our comprehensive, integrative chiropractic plan integrates all of these factors into our non-surgical scoliosis treatment program.
In teenage scoliosis, the main goal is to stop the progression of the spinal curve. Additionally, we may also see an improvement of the curve. However, in adult scoliosis, the goal is functional harmony without symptoms. For either category, the specific re-balancing is to reduce and eliminate the root-causes of spinal dysfunction. As your condition, or your teenager’s condition gains stability we will see signs of better spinal segmental function. As you or your teenager’s spine functions better, the spinal curvature becomes less of a threat to future health problems.