Scoliosis Treatment Without Surgery Or A Brace (Scoliosis Pain Relief)

Scoliosis treatment without surgery is that possible? Well I'm gonna share a

case with you so stay tuned. I am Dr. Ekberg with Wellness For Life

and if you'd like to truly master health by understanding how the body really

works make sure that you subscribe and hit that notification bell, so that you

don't miss anything. So what is scoliosis? Well the human spine is supposed

to have certain curves so if you look at it sideways then it's supposed to have

an S curve but if you look at it from the front it's supposed to be perfectly

straight so if you look at it from the front and it has a sideways curve that's

not a good thing and that's called scoliosis

and how does scoliosis develop well think of it like a tree that if you have

a young tree that's very flexible very soft and you attach a string to one end

of the tree and you pull it down to the ground then you create a bend in that

tree and if you leave the string there the tree will continue to grow but

because there's a force applied then it would be forced to stay in that position

and it will grow in that shape the spine is the same way the body is very

intelligent so it will grow bone will grow long lines of stress along lines of

force and weight bearing so gravity is always pulling on the body so if that's

the only factor then you'll grow straight but in the body we also have

muscles and on both sides of the spine there are muscles and if one side has

more muscle tension than it's going to pull the spine it's going to curb the

spine in that direction and in the body muscles don't work by themselves they do

only what the brain tells them to do and if the brain tells them to pull

differently it's because the brain is confused the brain only knows what it's

being told by your senses and by receptors and by signal

pathways so the brain receives all this information and it does its very best to

create a true picture to interpret what reality looks like but if the world

looks like this and the brain is told it looks like that the brain is going to

create an imbalance and it is sort of on purpose it is intelligent but it's based

on the fact that it's got bad information it's doing the best it can

with that information so if we have unequal tension on the two

sides of the spine then that feedback has been interfered with there's

something distorting that information and we know in chiropractic that there

is chemical stress there is structural stress and there's emotional stress so

any combination of these factors of emotional stress or physical trauma or

accidents or slips and Falls or food allergies chemicals metals etc etc etc

any of these things can distort information and give the brain a untrue

picture of what the world looks like and now the brain can't get the job done

perfectly so bone is a little different depending

on if you're still growing or if you have stopped growing while you're still

growing all the bones have what's called a growth plate and that growth plate is

kind of flexible it's still cartilage it's not solidified all the way so while

you're still growing there is time to change the curve there's time to change

what that looks like and then sometime in the late teens when you stop growing

then those growth plates fuse and that bone is pretty much set so we don't know

for sure if that is an absolutely set but we can know for sure that it is very

very difficult to change the shape after that age so let me tell you about a lady

that came in not long ago she had been to chiropractors they took pictures and

her scoliosis was so severe they wouldn't even

Kocher they said no we don't want to hurt you she went to the orthopedic

surgeons and they said oh well you're severe you're terrible pain is because

of this terrible curve and the only option that you have is surgery if we

put some rods in we can kind of brace to your body your spine and and keep it

from getting worse we don't know if the pain is going to improve so fortunately

she came into our office and we explained how things worked I said I

don't think I can change your scoliosis but maybe I can change your quality of

life two weeks later she's completely pain-free she's living in normal life

she's moving she's bending she's doing all her her normal things so did I fix

her scoliosis of course not that's been taking decades to develop and if at all

it's not going to change very quickly did we change a couple of degrees

possibly but what we did do we have to understand that this developed because

of a functional problem there was an imbalance in the perception that caused

this problem so what we did is we improved the perception we allowed the

brain to get a truer picture we allowed the brain better control and

understanding of the muscles so the reason that the spine bent was that

there was more force on one side and less force on the other and where the

side where there was less force means that wasn't working enough so by helping

the brain improve the function on that side we helped create a functional

balance we helped the brain work with what was there are we ever gonna change

that scoliosis maybe a few degrees probably not much she was somewhere

between 50 and 60 years old but what we did do is we changed function who

changed her quality of life understand that just because an x-ray or an MRI or

a diagnostic test says that it is so and that is the cause that doesn't make it

so what shows up on the X tray or the test is a result of a

functional problem if we can change the function we can improve the quality of

life remember that the body is designed to heal if we work with the body if we

support it if we help it then it can get better if we interfere with it if we

take medication if we try to force it to do certain things that is not going to

help it work better hope you enjoyed this information if you have experiences

about scoliosis if you know someone with scoliosis if you have questions please

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