By Bo Risin

About 80% of scoliosis cases are described as “idiopathic” - the cause is said to be unknown, while only about 20% of scoliosis cases have an identifiable cause - an injury, rickets, paralysis, bone deformity, leg length inequality, genetic predisposition, muscle imbalance etc.

What I’ve found through my own challenging but fortunately somewhat speedy recovery is that scoliosis is very different from most people’s understanding of it, as simply a lateral (sideways) curvature of the spine. Scoliosis also affects the muscles and ligaments of the spinal column. This causes the spine, ribs and pelvis to twist and rotate front to back and up and down, as well as sideways. Scoliosis also impairs the body’s neurological, hormonal, and nutritional systems.

While scoliosis is an extremely complex disease that can even affect the body down to its cellular level it is fortunately also quite treatable, if and when we approach it on holistic terms. In many cases there is no need to undergo surgery, wear braces or take prescription pain killers, no matter what your otherwise well meaning physician might assert.

When it comes to scoliosis, many medical professionals have not received adequate training in this field to be able to look for the deeper causes of a particular patient’s scoliosis condition. They treat what they know best - they treat the symptoms and they do it very well. However, few are ready to spend the necessary time to dig for deeper meaning - which, when it is found eliminates the need to undergo surgery in my experience in 85% of cases.

It is we then - scoliosis sufferers who need to take on the responsibility of becoming our own detective and our own doctor. And like any good detective needs to first establish motive, we need to first establish the major underline cause for our condition.

Based on what I have discovered throughout my own treatment, based on the experience and feedback of a large number of my readers and based on research performed by a number of scoliosis studies throughout the last decade, the very common (yet rarely talked about) causes for “idiopathic” scoliosis and its progression overall are (in order of importance):

1. Incorrect posture
2. Lumbar imbalance
3. Insufficient/unsuitable physical activity
4. Gravity (affecting progression of the curve)

These causes, working together through time, push to create an unnatural spinal curve.

Bo Risin is an alternative spine and posture expert and a long-time scoliosis sufferer who remedied his scoliosis curve from a 32 degrees cobb to less then 14 degrees on his own without surgery or bracing. Through time and a lot of trial-and-error Risin developed a unique scoliosis-cause diagnosys technique and combined it with his own effective exercise, posture and gravity-enhanced spine straightening regime. His scoliosis and scoliosis treatments resource can be found at Scoliosis Solution.com.

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