The spine is a structure that is lined all up and down with muscle (and ligaments, tendons etc..). The difference between someone with scoliosis and someone without scoliosis boils down to one thing.
The someone with scoliosis gets direct neurological message patterns from their brain telling certain muscles to contract along the spine unnecessarily.
This uneven muscle contracting pattern creates the scoliosis. If we can get the brain to let go of these habitual ways of contracting and create new neurological pathways for the musculature, we change the pattern and create the possibility for the spine to just be evenly supported by the muscles when they are needed. This is the magic of Brain Plasticity.
We are, as a society, used to forcing something into working. We have the belief that hard and stronger and repetition is the only route to success when your trying to get better at something- when it comes to brain this could not be further from the truth. The language of the brain is SLOW, SUBTLE and with absolute attention.
This is why bracing is a temporary solution and not permanent. It forces the spine into a position the brain has never learned.
This is why people who have surgery continue to have pain. The spine being straightened with rods still has those muscles contracting necessarily because the brain is still doing what it knows- its was never taught to let go of the old pattern.
This is why Scoliosis continues to develop over time despite all efforts that the medical system provides- because we have not yet come to the realisation that force is the opposite of what the brain needs to change its patterns. No doubt, There are situations where surgery is needed. However, after surgery- the brain needs the opportunity to create new connections around it new structure.
Anat Baniel NeuroMovement® lessons are essential to ALL forms of scoliosis treatment.