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What do scoliosis and heart attacks have in common? Well, cardio-vascular disease (CVD) and scoliosis are both "multi-factorial" diseases, which means the condition is caused by a combination of both genetic pre-disposition and environmental factors.....NOT just one or the other.

 

CVD stats from the Nation Institute of Health indicate a the annual number of deaths from CVD increased substantially from 1900 to 1970. The death rate for CVD increased from 1920 until it peaked in 1968. Since then, the trend has been downward. In 2007, the rate was near the all-time low in 1900. While some of this undoubtly can be contributed to improved care at the time of the event, most researcherc cite the decline in the death rated to the fact that fewer and fewer heart attacks are occuring per capita.

So what has changed between 1968 and now? Well, modern medicine stopped treating heart attacks and started preventing them.....mainly through the elimination and reduction of the environmental factors which helped to mimimize the risk of CVD even in patients with high genetic predisposition.

It has become so common place in CVD that mainstream medicine and has basically adapted the concept as the stardard of care.....Cholesteral/ blood pressuring lowering drugs, special diets, stress reduction, avoidance of cigarette smoke, and a new emphasis on aerobic exercise are all efforts to reduce/minimize the enviromental factors, that when combined with one's genetic predisposition, cause heart attacks.

 

The same should hold true for scoliosis treament, but yet it doesn't. The spinal curvature (often expressed in terms of Cobb angles) is the end result of genetic pre-disposition and environmental factors.....essentially, the spinal curvature is the "heart attack" (metaphorically speaking).

The advent of scoliscore genetic testing can now provide us reliable and accurate information in regards to one's genetic pre-disposition and allow us to shift our focus from the treatment of the end result (scoliosis/heart attack), to a prevenative approach of environmental factor reduction/elimination (biomechancial factors, high risk activities, nutritional modifications, ect.) This approach will allow us to alter the natural course of the condition (just like it has in CVD) and prevent small curves from progressing to surgical threshold. In fact, The most recent understanding of epigenetics strongly suggests Early Stage Scoliosis Intervention that reduces/eliminates the patient's risk of severe scoliosis progression could and should be utilized with or without genetic testing and regardless of the high, low, or intermediate genetic risk in an effort to reduce the risk of passing over-stimulated scoliosis genetics on to future generations.

 

This Early Stage Scoliosis Intervention + Genetic testing are the keys to altering the natural course of the condition will one day lead to a cure for scoliosis, but only after modern medcine makes the treatment shift to reducing/eliminating environmenal factors that cause scoliosis; rather than attempting to treat solely the scoliotic curvature after it has already progressed to a severe degree.

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Environmental factors can drive scoliosis progression? Can scoliosis exercises combat these "environmental factors" and halt curve progression and even reverse scoliosis?

 

The evidence is mounting and it looks like exercises for scoliosis may be the future of scoliosis treatment.  Consider these known environmental risk factors for scoliosis.


As far as it looks right now, it looks like the environmental factors of scoliosis seem to be falling into one of three catagories that all interact with each other and the genetic pre-disposition (via epigenetics or otherwise). Let's see how many we can list under these catagories and even add more catagories if appropriate.

 

Bio-mechanical
Forward head posture
Hip rotation
Sacral inclination
Sagittal spine distortion
Secondary bone adaptation to asymetrical loading (Hueter-Volkmann principle)

 

Activity related
Repeated hyper-extension of the mid back (ballet, competitive swimming, ect)
Compression of the spinal column (horse back riding, ect)


Bio-Chemical
Chronic Mycobacterium infections that drive up osteopontin levels
Nutritional deficiencies? Selenium?

 

Most of these environmental risk factors for scoliosis are preventable and even reversable with a highly specialized scoliosis exercises.

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A study from researchers in Washington, D. C. found that nutrition should logically be considered as a possible factor human scoliosis, based in part by a review of all of the animal studies where nutrition plays a role in the disorder. The study authors concluded that, "There is evidence that poor nutrition may play a role in the etiology of idiopathic scoliosis. This possibility should be examined further in humans."

Found Here: http://www.ctds.info/scoliosis.html


Abstract of the study:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8...?dopt=Abstract

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Early Stage Scoliosis Intervention can be achieved in 5 simple steps! Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis (AIS) is a complex, multi-factorial condition that involves both genetic and environmental factors. Genetic testing (Scoliscore) provides invaluable information on each particular patient and helps us assess the most appropriate, most pro-active, and least invasive treatment approach per each child's case needs. Eliminating and reducing the environmental co-factors that combine with the patient's genetic pre-disposition is the only way to treat AIS in a pro-active and prevenative manner (as opposed to the reactive manner of treating the already progressing curve with a bracing and surgery).

 

Step 1: Reconize the signs, symptoms, and risks of the condition.
Step 2: Scoliosis 101. Know thy enemy.
Step 3: What should I do?
Step 4: The early stage scoliosis intervention treatment experience.
Step 5: 20/25 vision for scoliosis treatment.

 

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"IMPORTANCE OF EARLY INTERVENTION" for Scoliosis
This weekend I glanced into a book:

Muscles Testing and Function with Posture and Pain
Fifth Edition by Kendall. Written in 2005.
I heard that the first edition came out 1976 or 1971.

Anyway, I looked up 'section V' about scoliosis and found this:


"IMPORTANCE OF EARLY INTERVENTION

Instead of waiting to see if a curve gets worse before
deciding to do something about it, why not treat the
problem to help prevent the curve from getting worse?
Doing something in the very early stages of a lateral
curve does not mean getting involved in a vigorous,
active program of exercises. Rather, it means prescribing
a few carefully selected exercises that help establish a
kinesthetic sense of good alignment. It means providing
good instruction to the patient and the parents in how to
avoid habitual positions or activities that clearly are conducive
to increasing the curvature.

It may mean taking a picture of the child's back in
the usual sitting or standing position, and then another
in a corrected position, so that the child can see the effect
of the exercise on posture. It also means providing
incentives to help keep the person interested and cooperative,
because achieving correction is an ongoing
project.

For those in whom the curve has become more advanced,
in many instances it is necessary and advisable
to provide some kind of a support to help maintain the
improvement in alignment that has been gained through
an exercise program.