Schroth Method
To maximize your therapeutic potential with Schroth, Dr. Kaminsky will work with your child in a supportive and synergistic systems called, “Craniosacral Therapy”, and “Pranic Healing”. These modalities will add the energetic and spiritual component needed in scoliosis reversal.
As a Chiropractor, Dr. Kaminsky is very proficient with the Schroth method and recommends that you seek someone who specializes in this modality. Although the jury is still out on the efficacy and benefits of this approach, but with an open mind and effort, every modality is useful.
Additional breathing techniques outside of the type of breathing techniques, different from the Schroth system, will also be demonstrated for home instruction to be implemented into a daily routine.
Adding further positive components like Craniosacral Therapy and Chiropractic into a Schroth regimen will greatly improve the potential of your curve reversal.
The Schroth method addresses specifically the musculoskeletal system having you actively use voluntary movement, positioning and breath. Craniosacral Therapy, Pranic Healing will help improve the function of the body’s innate self-regulating, self-healing mechanisms through the movement of bodily fluid.
Important consideration must be given to the role of the craniosacral mechanism in scoliosis, which has been found to always be compromised in children and adults with scoliosis. The craniosacral system in the human body was discovered by the Osteopathic profession.
Treating the craniosacral mechanism with craniosacral therapy adds invaluable benefit to the whole complex process of curve restoration.
With scoliosis there is always involvement with the diaphragm, so incorporating breathing techniques is very important. Not just breathing into the side opposite the curve.
Breathing is dynamic and therefore, the breathing techniques must always challenge the patient. Specific breathing exercises are taught by Dr. Kaminsky in office and recommended for home care.
Pranic Healing is a body-work system that is applied to the body’s energetic system. The energetic system holds muscular patterns that must be released in-order for the spine to straighten. Energy body work is incorporated into all in-office sessions.
You get a comprehensive approach against scoliosis with Dr. Kaminsky.
Scoliosis is reversible given the proper sequential and detailed care.
Dr. Kaminsky’s ongoing continuing education in various scientific fields allows him to offer solutions outside the box, offering additional methods of treatment. To learn about his philosophy about Scoliosis, click here.
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Origins of the Schroth Method
The field of Schroth therapy offers a non-invasive yet forward moving approach to managing the progression of scoliosis. Katharina Schroth, a German native and scoliosis patient herself, began the work of scoliosis correction on herself as well as research on scoliosis treatment that continues through today.
Schroth Method for Managing Scoliosis
The basis of the Schroth Method consists of conservative exercises designed to elongate the trunk and develop the muscles of the rib cage. These muscles can deteriorate due to non-use by the individual suffering from scoliosis. Therefore, when they are strengthened the upper trunk is more supported and elongated which leads to a correction of spinal abnormalities.
These exercises are based on a three dimensional (3-D) approach to visualize the extent and uniqueness of the patient’s curvature. An x-ray of the spine, while informative, is only a 1-dimensional view of the extent of the spinal curve. The practitioner being able to visualize the spine’s curves from a 3-D approach allows them to understand the vertebral rotations that occur with scoliosis. The spine exists in three planes; sagittal plane (front to back), frontal plane (side to side), and transverse plane (rotations).
Schroth Method is a Good Option
The overall goal of scoliosis treatment with the Schroth Method is to stop the progression of the curvature and second to straighten the spine. Through these exercises the potential of a decreased curve(s), diminished rib prominence and more even aligned pelvis is achievable.
Today the Schroth Method is considered a viable and appropriate therapy modality for treating curvatures of the spine. The uniqueness of this approach is its focus on muscular imbalance. While this method may require effort, determination, and discipline from the patient it is less invasive and more promising for achieving long-lasting relief from pain and or spinal curvature / vertebral rotation.
Schroth is a Process
Addressing the curvature of the spine from all three planes is the best approach attempting to achieve a straightening and proper alignment of the spine. This will allow the individual a chance to obtain continued long-term benefits.
The patient undergoing scoliosis correction utilizing the Schroth Method should expect to perform customized exercises for the curvature(s) of their spine specifically. Using position, repetition, and breathing the patient will become aware of the desired new posture. Chiropractor, Dr. Alex Kaminsky will utilize additional methods from Craniosacral Therapy, Pranic Healing and Breathing to help add synergy and achieve maximum amount of therapeutic potential.
Schroth Breathing
There are two phases of the Schroth Method approach; positioning and activation. Phase one, positioning the body, is where the practitioner shows the patient how to position the body and align the posture beginning from the feet and working up to the head. Some equipment may be used such as a pull-up bar to lengthen the spine, or straps and props to help properly position the torso.
The second phase, activation, will activate the previously acquired corrections from phase one. In phase two the muscles will be worked and trained to produce endurance so they are better able to support the spine and ribs for long-term results.
Advanced Breathing Techniques
Dr. Kaminsky incorporates breathing techniques as taught by Dr. Gay Hendricks, which are very useful and powerful in helping reset the patients physiology and allow for release of functional restrictions the body is holding. The patient will be shown how to consciously breath in conjunction with craniosacral therapy in the office during sessions, as well as at home care.
Dr. Kaminsky Combines Complementary Methods
Scoliosis patients of all ages are encouraged to seek a consultation to determine if they are a good candidate to incorporate Craniosacral Therapy, Pranic Healing and Breathing Techniques to their Schroth sessions.
Schedule an appointment with your child and decide if Dr. Kaminsky can add benefit to your child’s routine.
Alex was born in March 1972. At the age of 7 he started to experience frequent headaches with all the conventional symptoms of a Migraine headache. His particular headache resulted in him experiencing auras, nausea and sensitivity to light with no particular trigger to the onset of the migraine.
After years of treatments, therapies and medications, his headaches were no better and Alex continued to experience them all throughout childhood and into young adulthood. Some years the headaches would come monthly, some years every two to three months and some years weekly. His headaches were incurable, there was nothing that could alleviate the symptoms and head pain. Until he experienced cranial manual therapy, which resulted in the complete eradication of his life-long Migraine Headaches.
At the age of 16 Alex noticed a mild deformity in the right side of his ribs, a slightly lower right shoulder and the experience of constant lower back pain. Although mild, a diagnosis of Idiopathic Adolescent Scoliosis had been labeled.
At the age of 18 he was involved in a serious car accident that exacerbated his lower back pain. Throughout the years Alex had tried a multitude of conventional treatments but continued to suffer on and off with lower back pain, even throughout Chiropractic school and beyond.
In 2015 and fifteen+ years out of Chiropractic school, Dr. Kaminsky participated in his first and life changing Craniosacral Therapy seminar and he was fascinated, intrigued and hooked. It all made sense, he was immediately astute to its methods and since that first seminar, and as a result of trading sessions of Craniosacral Therapy with his colleagues, his back pain subsided and till this day has never returned.
Dr. Kaminsky decided to enhance his skill-set to better serve his patients. He began reaching out to other craniosacral therapists, cranial osteopaths, and many types of leading practitioners from various fields for advise and consultations He also enrolled in Upledger continuing education seminars with a focus on mostly hands-on manual and alternative therapies.
And, as he gained knowledge with his own health issues, he has learned to help more and more patients achieve great health results.
Dr. Alex Kaminsky is headache free and low back pain free, and has committed himself to a life of learning, teaching and treating patients. His emphasis is on the patient’s stored patterns of the body and each individual healthcare needs.