The word scoliosis comes from the Greek word scoliosis, meaning "crookedness of a body part." Originally, the term meant any abnormal deviation of the spine from the midline, but for many years the term has been restricted to mean an abnormal sideward curvature of the spine away from the midline when viewed from the back.
When relatively straight, the spine behaves much like a column. When viewed from the back, the shoulders and hips are level and there is no twisting of the spine. When deformed, the spine becomes subjected to bending stresses and behaves more like a bending beam or rod than a column. Unlike engineered columns of uniform size made of like material, the effects of body weight in an upright position are much more complex to understand or predict.
The structural faults associated with scoliosis are usually more obvious as physical distortions at the shoulder, chest, and hip levels. In addition, the ribs and shoulder blades are often distorted when there is a scoliosis condition, but this sign may also be the result of a paralysis or disease process.
Common Types of Scoliosis
Most scoliotic distortions can be classified into two major types: functional and structural. Each type has many sub-categories depending on the exact cause.
Functional Scoliosis
Functional scoliosis occurs when some muscles or ligaments have tightened and shortened while others have weakened and stretched. Some nerves may have become stretched and irritated while others have become compressed and inhibited. This ends to cause segments of the spine to twist, creating an abnormal spinal curvature. It is generally caused by the effect of gravitational forces on muscles, tendons and ligaments that vary in their integrity.
Structural Scoliosis
There are two major types of structural curvatures: (1) irreversiblespinal curves that exhibit gross changes in the spinal joints; and (2) spinal curves that are the result of possibly reversible tissue changes, such as shortened ligaments or spastic or weakened muscles. Corrective care can improve the functional element involved and inhibit further abnormal structural changes.
Alternative Treatment for Scoliosis in Denver
Scoliosis is a dis-ease of the neuro-muscular skeletal system. The Medical “Gold Standard of treatment which is bracing and surgery, has few positive results. 90% of the time the Scoliosis patient presents with a standard posture; forward head posture, right head tilt, right high shoulder, left lumbo-dorsal Cobb angle, right thoracic Cobb angle, left posterior and right anterior hips.
Our Denver chiropractic clinic uses breakthrough state of the art CLEAR Institute Scoliosis protocol in your scoliosis. We may have what you've been searching for. Clear Institutes Scoliosis protocols are a medical/chiropractic breakthrough technology with a proven success rate. Clear Institute has patented many pieces of therapy/ rehab equipment required to correct scoliosis, gently, precisely and safely to decrease in scoliosis Cobb angles.
Scoliosis correction is done by retraining your spinal muscles, ligaments and tendons to function correctly. It starts with a warm up of your spinal joints to get them ready for the corrective spinal treatment and lastly cool down cycle that helps lock in the correction. Unlike bracing and surgery, Clear Institute protocols for scoliosis used in our Denver clinic helps heal your spine and make you a healthier individual.
Many treatments only help reduce pain temporarily. Others only approach scoliosis structurally. In recent studies scoliosis patients who were treated with Clear Institute scoliosis protocols, all patients got better, no patients got worse and the average scoliosis reduction was 62% in 8-10 weeks.
If you or a love one suffers with Scoliosis, treatments with out CLEAR Institute protocol are safe & effective for most scoliosis patients. Call us today for a Complimentary Scoliosis Consultation and see if our Denver Clinic will be able to help you.
