Cutting through the confusion about scoliosis Dr. David Russ 

I was diagnosed with moderate scoliosis at 8 and was in a brace by 9. It helped a little bit. But puberty grew me out of the brace after only 2 years, so the doctors went with just monitoring. I was told surgery was an option but I opted out. My hips and shoulders are noticeably uneven, but I deal with it. I'm in my early 30s now and have become increasingly more conscious of my posture as I've aged and will catch myself out of a slouch, especially when sitting at a desk.

Hell yeah thanks for the clarification!

It's funny you mention the Schroth method being dated. When I was having my scoliosis looked at they had these back braces that looked like they came out of the 1980's. A lot of the stuff did and this was the early 2010's. Never used one because I had finished growing at that point and ended up correcting my curve (62') with surgery, but definitely had conflicting feelings about it for years. I don't like that I can't arch my back anymore, I have this fixed position and while it helps maintain the illusion that I have great posture, I miss the mobility. Also like 80% of the nerves on my back were just... dead. for like 3 years. Most of them are back now but there's still random spots where if you were to touch me there it's really numb. A lot of my muscles felt atrophied after, especially around the back of the shoulder blade, idk what those ones are called. Reduce/remove movement from an area and your muscles will weaken too. One permanent change was I can't tell at all if my back is sweating. If my shirt sticks and tugs, then I notice, but if it's just wet? nada. I'm still fairly young so I'm sure there's other side effects I'm going to age into. I don't regret the surgery anymore, I think it was necessary given the angle and my quality of life improved immensely after. My curve was crushing my lower right lung and I could feel it when I was exercising. It wasn't expanding as much as it could've. Honestly made me worried many times I might pass out on my bike. But my curve was not the norm and if you're in that moderate-severe range you REALLY need to spend a lot of time thinking about it. Surgery is not a slam dunk and exploring other options is so worth it. Thanks for doing a video on scoliosis. So much bad information out there.

Many, many thanks, Dr. Russ! Do you have an opinion on the method Functional Patterns? Thanks and kind regards from Germany

There was an old video you posted about giving a guy an adjustment to his pectoral muscle? what happened to it?? I cant seem to find it. Was one of my fav videos