Scoliosis Treatment Newport Beach

Scoliosis is a sideways curvature of the spine with a rotational component. Most cases are idiopathic, appearing during adolescent growth with no identified cause, and the size of the curve and the amount of growth remaining are what determine how it is managed.

What Scoliosis Treatment Newport Beach involves

Assessment, symptom management and monitoring. Scoliosis Treatment Newport Beach patients here get an examination of how the spine moves, treatment of the areas that have become painful or restricted, and an exercise programme — plus honest advice about whether they need a specialist opinion.

Adults and adolescents are different problems

In a growing adolescent the concern is curve progression, which is monitored with regular measurement and managed with bracing or surgery in specialist care. In an adult the curve is generally stable and the issue is pain and function, which is squarely what conservative care addresses.

Monitoring, and when to refer

A curve that is progressing during growth needs specialist assessment, and we will refer promptly rather than treating. Rapid change, a curve above the threshold for bracing, or any neurological sign all belong with an orthopaedic specialist.

What conservative care does not do

Straighten the spine. There is no good evidence that manual therapy reduces a scoliotic curve, and any practitioner offering to correct one with adjustments is going well past what is supportable. We will not make that claim.

What it can genuinely do

Reduce the pain and stiffness that come with an asymmetrical spine, improve movement where it has been lost, and build the strength and endurance that make a curved spine more comfortable to live in. For most adults with scoliosis, that is the useful goal.