The scoliosis treatment process matters.

Idiopathic scoliosis of spine is a unique and rather confusing condition. Adolescent children (mainly girls) whom appear to have perfectly normal and healthy spines all of a sudden develop an unexplained scoliosis spine; often in only a few months. They didn't start to do anything differently, they didn't start eating anything differently, and perhaps most the weird part is that despite their scoliosis spine being crooked, they are still generally healthy.

Of course, not "knowing" the cause of the condition certainly makes the task of scoliosis treatment quite challenging; especially when one considers that researchers have yet to find anything actually broken or wrong with the scoliosis spine itself ......it's simply just crooked. In the early stage idiopathic scoliosis patients the discs appear to normal, the muscles appear to be normal, the vertebrae appear to be normal, the ligaments appear to be normal; the scoliosis spine just is crooked for no apparent reason.

This lack of evidence is what has lead to most idiopathic scoliosis researchers to begin looking for a neurological cause for scoliosis of spine, and they are collected a lot of compelling data/evidence to support a neurological under-development in the postural control centers of the brain stem as a root cause component (a combination of genetic and environmental influences) of the scoliosis of spine condition.

Armed with this knowledge, it is pretty easy to see why "mainstream" scoliosis treatment (scoliosis brace treatment and scoliosis surgery) have very poor outcomes and are basically obsolete at this point. As it turns out, process matters in scoliosis treatment.

I always like to use the "making bread" analogy when discussing the Mix/Fix/Set protocol developed by the CLEAR Institute. Throw eggs, flour, yeast, oil, ect into a bowl and toss it in the oven and you won't get bread.....you'll get warm goo. However, if you knead the ingredients into dough, let it rise in the fridge, cook it in a pre-heated oven for the prescribed amount of time you will most likely get bread. Same ingredients, different protocols, dramatically different outcomes.

The successful scoliosis treatment programs for scoliosis of spine in the future will primarily focus on the neuro-muscular component of the scoliosis spine and not just the curvature itself. It will begin as a pro-active scoliosis spine rehab program in the earliest stages of idiopathic scoliosis. And perhaps most importantly, it will focus on the elimination of the environmental influences that combine with the genetic pre-disposition that actually causes scoliosis of spine and will (hopefully) lead to a cure for idiopathic scoliosis.