TY - GEN
T1 - Reversal of the signs and symptoms of moderately severe idiopathic scoliosis in response to physical methods
AU - Hawes, Martha C.
AU - Brooks, William J.
PY - 2002
Y1 - 2002
N2 - This report describes improved signs and symptoms of previously untreated symptomatic spinal deformity in an adult female diagnosed with moderately severe thoracic scoliosis at the age of.7 years. Current treatment initiated at the age of forty included massage therapy, manual traction, ischemic pressure, and comprehensive manipulative medicine (CMM). A left-right chest circumference inequity was reduced by >10 cm, in correlation with improved appearance of the ribcage deformity and a 40% reduction in magnitude of Cobb angle, which had been stable for 30 years. The changes occurred gradually over an eight-year period, with the most rapid improvement occurring during two periods when CMM was employed.
AB - This report describes improved signs and symptoms of previously untreated symptomatic spinal deformity in an adult female diagnosed with moderately severe thoracic scoliosis at the age of.7 years. Current treatment initiated at the age of forty included massage therapy, manual traction, ischemic pressure, and comprehensive manipulative medicine (CMM). A left-right chest circumference inequity was reduced by >10 cm, in correlation with improved appearance of the ribcage deformity and a 40% reduction in magnitude of Cobb angle, which had been stable for 30 years. The changes occurred gradually over an eight-year period, with the most rapid improvement occurring during two periods when CMM was employed.
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U2 - 10.3233/978-1-60750-935-6-365
DO - 10.3233/978-1-60750-935-6-365
M3 - Conference contribution
C2 - 2004200447
AN - SCOPUS:16544394859
SN - 1586032895
SN - 9781586032890
T3 - Studies in Health Technology and Informatics
SP - 365
EP - 368
BT - Research into Spinal Deformities 4
PB - IOS Press
T2 - 4th Meeting of the International Research Society of Spinal Deformities, IRSSD 2002
Y2 - 24 May 2002 through 27 May 2002
ER -