The Use of Exercises in the treatment of scholiosis

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Ok I just post a really good article about the benefits of PT. It talks about

how a lot of docs disregards it, but it shows proof of how good it really is. A

must read.

Here is a clip of some real important information I never knew:

The need for

research is especially urgent in the US, where a successful

campaign to reduce sudden infant death syndrome

(SIDS) by convincing parents to place their babies in

the supine position for sleeping has been underway for

the past decade [173]. Unfortunately, use of the supine

position in the past almost certainly underlies the fact

that infantile scoliosis was prevalent in Europe where

babies traditionally slept in the supine position and

almost non-existent in the US where babies traditionally

slept face-down (`prone') [139]. Infantile scoliosis

reportedly has almost disappeared from Europe with

adoption of the prone sleeping position for babies

[135, 174]. As a result of a `back to sleep' campaign

which has failed to consider the known dangers of inducing

infantile scoliosis [121, 135], this potentially deadly

disorder can be predicted to be on the rise in the US,

where it used to be extremely rare [140]. The children

who are victims of this policy are going to need reliable

non-surgical therapeutic intervention to prevent tragic

consequences [144, 150].