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Scoliosis - Introduce yourself and meet others

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@loribmt

Hi @reneeksmith Welcome to Mayo Clinic Connect. Scoliosis and adult onset scoliosis is out of my area of experience but I did find a discussion in our forum with a fellow mentor, @jenniferhunter. She initiated the discussion with “Answers about Controversial Trends in Spine Care” that you might find interesting. I posted links to the original conversation as well as a reply to another member who has the same spinal condition.

This is a link to the comment in the discussion
https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/638896/
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https://connect.mayoclinic.org/discussion/controversial-trends-in-spine-care/?pg=2#comment-638896
There is one thing I’d like to toss out to you. My daughter works with a personal trainer in Functional Patterns (Minneapolis) but there are facilities world wide. https://functionalpatterns.com/
There are often photos of clients the trainers have worked with in their training clinics. Several of these are people who have scoliosis. Young and older. Significant changes took place when the clients learned the proper exercises needed to counteract the contortion of the disease. It’s just something I thought I’d mention.

I hope you can find some answers in the group. Are you having any relief with the PT your doing?

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@loribmt Thank you for your quick response and link to prior conversation. I, too, was dismissed for surgery by orthopedic because of my age, 70. I appreciate the link to the trainer with whom your daughter works.

As regards my on-going Physical Therapy and pain relief, as long as I am diligent and continue PT 2-3 x/day, every day, the stretching and strengthening exercises help some with pain relief and mobility, especially mobility. I also take Norco, Robaxin and rely on bi-weekly chiropractic adjustments for relief from pain. Chiropractic has the added bonus of improving my overall well-being.

I am anxious to learn of others with my degree of severity or significant loss of height (I lost 7” in two years).