Schroth Method Exercises for Scoliosis

Schroth Exercises Fix What Causes Pain

Avoid Addictive Pain Pills That Only Treat Symptoms

The Schroth Method Relieves Chronic Pain with:
  • Guidance on how to sit, stand, and sleep in positions that relieve postural stresses
  • Exercises that relieve the burden of overtensed muscles
  • Corrected alignment of pelvis and ribs, which prevents ribs from rubbing together painfully
X-Ray Before Schroth Treatment

35 degree curvature

X-Ray After Schroth Treatment

14 degree curvature after Schroth Exercises

The Definitive Handbook
on Schroth Exercises

The Schroth Method for Scoliosis

Written by Christa Lehnert-Schroth, P.T. this book includes:

  • Over 100 scoliosis exercises – with photos
  • Treatments for 3, as well as 4-curve configurations, which the author discovered, and which are actually more common than many doctors realize
  • Exercises for Scheuermann’s kyphosis, flatback, hollow-back syndrome (hyperlordosis), lumbar kyphosis, spondylolisthesis, and related pathologies

"Even after years as a Schroth method practitioner, I’m still amazed how patients who suffered pain for years find relief within a few intensive sessions, and nearly all eventually become pain-free.”

80% of Patients Reduced or Eliminated Their Pain in a Schroth program

In 1989, 311 scoliosis patients 12 – 69 years old with an average Cobb angle of 50.5 degrees filled out pain questionnaires at the beginning and end of their treatment programs at the Katharina Schroth Klinik. They were asked to rate their pain on a scale of 0 – 5
(0 = no pain, 1 = low, 2 = moderate, 3 = rather intense, 4 = very intense, 5 = scarcely bearable).

Before treatment, 60% reported pain ranging from 3 – 5 (average rating was 2.7)

After Treatment:
  • 80% of them rated their pain between 0 – 2 (Average rating dropped to 1.1).
  • 43.7% received TOTAL pain relief from the program

 

Source: Weiss HR, “Scoliosis-related pain in adults: Treatment influences,” European Journal of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation 3/3 (1993): 91-94.

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