- Scoliosis
Scoliosis can cause pain, limited range of motion, shortness of breath, and other significant symptoms for children or adults who experience this abnormal curving of the spine. While you will likely see another doctor to diagnose and manage your condition, chiropractic care can supplement this treatment and help reduce your symptoms.
At Specific Care Chiropractic, you can meet with our team to review your imaging scans, condition, and symptoms. Our chiropractors will then formulate your Plantation scoliosis treatment plan, aimed at reducing your pain to help you live a full and active life. Call us today at 239-369-9109 to get started.
What Is Scoliosis?
Scoliosis is an abnormal curvature of the spine. According to the American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS), this is a lateral curve, meaning it leans too far to one side or the other.
When the back curves naturally, the head, shoulders, and pelvis align properly and work to ensure the body moves and operates smoothly and without pain. When this alignment is off, chronic pain and other symptoms may develop.
Some people have much more severe curvatures than others, and the condition has several causes. Each year, more than 600,000 people see a physician for scoliosis symptoms. Doctors perform almost 40,000 spinal fusions on scoliosis patients in an attempt to erase their symptoms and eliminate their chronic pain.
Signs of scoliosis that could cause discomfort or concern include:
- Uneven shoulders
- Protruding shoulder blades
- Unusually high hip or hips
- Uneven rib cages on each side
- Uneven waist
- Body leaning to one side
Long-term effects of scoliosis could include chronic pain, wearing down of other joints and body parts from uneven usage, and shortness of breath from reduced pulmonary function.
How Chiropractic Care Helps People Living with Scoliosis
When used in conjunction with traditional treatment and monitoring, chiropractic care may help reduce the pain, increase mobility, and lessen the long-term limitations related to scoliosis.
According to the Mayo Clinic, failing to adequately address your scoliosis and symptoms will likely worsen your condition. It will only make your spinal misalignment worse and increase the risk of additional health complications such as:
- Chronic pain that limits your activities and quality of life
- Breathing concerns if your ribs or spine crowd your lungs
- Severe back pain that impairs mobility
- Unbalanced musculoskeletal shifting because one side of your body is higher than the other
While the doctor you see for monitoring your spine will likely assess if you need surgery, bracing, or other treatments, your chiropractor from the Specific Care Chiropractic team can assess your needs for chronic pain relief, limited flexibility, and mobility, and other symptoms. We understand the special knowledge necessary to treat patients with scoliosis and how to address their unique needs.
Let Our Team Address Your Needs
The Specific Care Chiropractic team will be upfront with you—there is no instant cure for your scoliosis pain and getting results could take time. However, we feel confident we can improve most patients’ lives by using specialized techniques and treatments.
Getting results and reducing your pain will require us to implement strategies, apply prescribed techniques, and guide you through stretches and exercises to do at home. This process may make it possible to eliminate your scoliosis symptoms.
Our services include chiropractic adjustments and physiotherapy. We develop a plan to address each client’s physical needs from these broad treatment categories. Our aim is always to restore your health, happiness, and enjoyment of life.
Building a Treatment Plan for Scoliosis
For minor cases, chiropractic care may meet all your treatment needs and alleviate your pain and other symptoms. In more severe cases, our patients use it as a complementary treatment. We can determine your needs and even refer you to an orthopedist or surgeon as needed.
At Specific Care Chiropractic, we will discuss your physical goals and the issues you hope to address with chiropractic care. Then, we will build a plan using a combination of chiropractic adjustments and physiotherapy to help you meet them.
As a part of this plan, we may use the following techniques and strategies.
Chiropractic Adjustments
Spinal manipulation is the adjustments you probably think about when considering what happens at a chiropractor’s office. These adjustments use special techniques to realign the spinal joints and vertebrae. When properly aligned, back pain may lessen immediately. For some people with chronic pain due to their scoliosis, it could take regular adjustments to manage their symptoms.
Our chiropractors use several different adjustment techniques to help those with scoliosis, depending on the facts of their case. This could include:
- Activator
- Diversified adjustments
- Extremity manipulation
- Knee-chest
- Sacral-occipital technique (SOT)
- Seated diversified
- Side posture
- Thompson Drop-Table Technique
- Toggle recoil
Our plans are not one-size-fits-all, our chiropractors will build a rehabilitation plan that meets your unique needs. They will only perform safe and effective adjustments based on your condition.
Physical Therapy
Our care team also performs physiotherapy to help reduce pain, increase flexibility, aid mobility, and prevent future symptoms. Physical therapy plans also depend on the patient’s unique needs. They may include:
- Physical rehabilitation
- Guided exercise
- Corrective care
- Massage
- Ultrasound therapy
- Electrical muscle stimulation (E-STIM) therapy
As your needs change, so will your plan. Our team can help you understand how each prescribed adjustment or therapy exercise works, its purpose, and what you need to do between sessions to improve your outcome.
Consider Plantation Scoliosis Treatment for Reducing Your Pain
At Specific Care Chiropractic, our chiropractors help those living with scoliosis pain to reduce their limitations and improve their quality of life. We believe chiropractic treatment complements traditional medicine effectively.
If you are living with scoliosis in Plantation, Florida, we invite you to make an appointment to learn how we may be able to resolve your pain and improve other aspects of your life.
We can answer your questions and help you understand the therapies we may prescribe. New patients can contact our team using our online contact form or by calling 239-369-9109 to schedule an introductory appointment today.