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General Douglas MacArthur beat Scoliosis without bracing or surgery!

Never, Never, Never give up.

Douglas MacArthur: No Greater Honor. Pages 25-33

"He had the grades to qualify for enterance to West Point, but when he went for his preliminary physical examination, he recieved shocking news. The doctor informed MacArthur that he had curvature of the spine and was medically unfit to enter West Point.

Douglas was flabbergasted by the news; after all his sports record was excellent. He hardly knew what to think about his future; but his mother knew just what to do- a medical problem would not keep her son out of West Point, not if there was a way to cure it. She encouraged Douglus not to give up and made an appointment for him to see Dr. Franz Pfister, a well respected surgeon in Milwakee, Wisconsin.

Dr. Pfister told Douglas there was a possibility he could cure his spinal problem, as long as Douglas was prepared to do special scoliosis exercises everyday and follow all of his instructions for one year. Douglas jumped at the opportunity and made plans to move to Milwakee......By 1897 Douglas and his mother were living in the Plankinton house and the rehabilitation on the spinal condition had begun. Douglas worked with Dr. Pfister eveyday. Stretching and twisting his back muscles and lifting heavy weights......Even when his muscles ached and his back felt like it could not stretch another inch, he kept up his daily exercise program......

(following his 2nd medical enterance exam into West Point) The doctor who conducted the exam saw that while he made great improvement, Douglas' spine still wasn't straight enough to pass. At first he was angery his back was not straight enough, especially since he had worked so hard and done everything Dr. Pfister told him to. But, as he walked he calmed down and asked himself what he wanted to do with his life.

Somehow he remained sure his destiny laid with becoming an officer in the Army. "So I didn't make it this year" Douglas told himself, "but the good news is the exercises are working and my back is getting straighter. If I work twice as hard this next year, I bet I can get into the next class." (at West Point)

Once again Douglas through himself into Dr. Pfister's exerise regime......In May of 1899 he passed his physical exam into West Point. It had taken two years longer than he would have liked, but that didn't matter now, because he was accepted into West point"

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Dis-coordination of the neuro-muscular system is probably the most important primary environmental factor contributing to the condition of scoliosis.  So it only makes sense that an scoliosis exercises / neuro-muscular rehab program would also be part of the primary treatment for the condition.  However, not all exercise will have the same effect on scoliosis.  For example, push-ups, sit ups, ect won't have any impact on the curvature.

     The rehab concepts behind how to go about doing this can be tricky. Mostly we are taking advantage in the advancements in anthropometry (yes it is an actual word meaning "the study of human body measurements") that can give us new and more accurate info in regards to the center mass points in the human body (Ex: the center mass of the head is located 4 mm anterior from the center of the sella tursica). Who cares right? Well, the center mass of an object acts as though it is the entire object (aka: the center mass of an object is it's balancing point), so the whole concept of early stage scoliosis may revolve around the body's inability to align the center mass of the upper torso (the head) and the lower torso (the pelvis) in relation to each other. Therefore, the spine connecting the two major center masses (head and pelvis) becomes crooked in order to connect the two. Bingo! Early stage scoliosis! The real trick is that center mass misalignment appears to be occurring in the side view (sagittal) and front view (coronal) plane at the same time (gotta think 3-D to understand this one).

It obviously takes more spine, spinal cord, muscle tissue (on one side of the curve), ect to travel a crooked line rather than a straight line and thus the adverse mechanical tension is created on the spine cord (kind of like an acquired spinal cord tethering) which results in an uncoupling of the spinal rotation patterns in the thoracic spine seen in curves 30 degrees or larger (that's what creates the rib humping). Keep in mind that while all this is happening, the center masses (head and pelvis) are getting further and further out of alignment, which is creating even more instability within the system and then the poor kid hits a growth spurt that adds another 10-20lbs of compression force on the spine. That system further collapses on itself and the curvature buckles even further to the side creating more adverse mechanical tension on the spinal cord, which in turn stimulates even more rotation into the concavity (rather than the biomechanically expected convexity) in order to allow the stressed out spinal cord to travel though the inside of the curvature instead of forcing it to travel the longer distance around the outside of the curve. Of course this increased rotation creates even more spinal torque and the curve coils down even further to continue reducing the total vertical distance it must travel (again, 3-D thinking required).

Now that we have outlined the mechanism, the problem can be solved through early intervention rehab that trains the involuntary reflex arches (righting reflexes) by manipulating (through the use of weighted hats and diving belts, not necessarliy adjustments) where the body perceives the center masses of the upper and lower torso (AKA: Head and pelvis). Then we have the patient perform neurologically challenging rehab at the same time we are creating the corrective stimulus with the head weighting and hip weighting.

     I know it sounds like a lot of complex stuff (and it is), but it works.....especially if we can implement this 3-D auto correction type treatment system during the early stages of the scoliosis condition (mild scoliosis).