What is Scoliosis
Scoliosis affects all ages: infants, children, adolescents, and adults. About 80% of scoliosis cases are called adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS). Idiopathic means the...
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OK, I have been researching scoliosis and treatments a lot since my curve started worsening again at age 34, and I've always had the feeling that there could be some holistic approach to fighting scoliosis that most physicians in Western medicine ignore. I've been very, very skeptical of alternative methods for treatment for scoliosis, even while considering trying to undergo something like the Schroth method for treatment of post-surgery scoliosis patients.
Then today my wife forwarded this article to me and I was floored by what I read: http://breezymama.com/2009/07/24/c... This woman is fighting to save her child from infantile ideopathic scoliosis and she found an Indian physician who has an apparently successful unconventional treatment method that most kids in the west are NOT GETTING ACCESS to, but is practiced sporadically in this country. So if this article is on the level, I'm a bit disturbed but also motivated to go ahead and seek out some alternative treatment before going along with my highly-respected surgeon's advice to undergo another spinal fusion. Has anyone heard of this Mehta method, or does anyone have any real success stories in utilizing unconventional treatments to avoid surgery for scoliosis? Posted on 07/29/09, 03:07 pm |
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I haven't heard of this particular method, but I've read that the real treatments for Scoliosis are not standard in the U.S. You can find a few places that really treat it, but you have to have the money to pay for it. And there are definitely effective alternative treatments used in other countries. 
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This is a standard treatment in the UK and isn't seen as "alternative" there at all :-) In addition, several hospitals in the US offer this treatment, including Shriners in Philly.
However this treatment only works for infants under the age of about 2. This is because an infant's bones are very soft, and this, together with their rapid infantile growth spurts, allows for the plaster casts to effectively "mould" the spine straight as the child grows. Min Mehta is a retired spinal surgeon who was always happy to operate on children for whom this treatment did not work. I am one of them; she inserted my Harrington Rods in 1983 after I spent several years in casts to hold my curves (after I got too old for them to actually correct them). I have had no problems whatsoever since :-)
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