A Brief Guide to Treating Scoliosis With SEAS Methods

The Scientific Exercise Approach to Scoliosis (SEAS) is an individualized exercise program for treating scoliosis. For people with scoliosis curves that do not require surgical intervention, SEAS exercises can stop curve progression. Learn some essential information for effective practices in this brief guide to treating scoliosis with SEAS methods.

Learn How To Self-Correct Your Positioning

SEAS exercises teach you to actively self-correct your positions in everyday life. Poor posture does not cause scoliosis, but it strains your body and causes muscle pain and tightness. Mindfully positioning your body while sitting, standing, and lying down improves spine realignment.

SEAS teaches corrective measures that you make without external aid. This aspect of the treatment makes it an accessible, highly effective method you can use in everyday life. However, depending on your SEAS exercise program, your physiotherapist may initially teach you how to position yourself with the use of aids such as poles, symmetric supports, and exercise equipment like stall bars.

Any equipment your therapist has you use in a session is only to help with the learning process. Once you understand the correct motion for positioning, you can integrate it into your daily life without the tools.

Try Fun and Interesting Exercises

Treating scoliosis with non-surgical methods is a lengthy process. For SEAS to work, you must adhere to the exercise program. The best way to ensure you stay engaged with your treatment is to make the exercises fun and interesting.

With the SEAS approach, your therapist will teach you exercises and strategies you can use independently. When developing your specific treatment, the therapist will consider your curvature and the corrections you can perform and maintain at that time.

You will learn useful exercises and skills at every session, then perform and maintain the self-correction until the next session. At the next session, your therapist will assess your status and try to teach a more complex self-correction method. SEAS exercises build on your abilities over time with a realistic, rather than idealistic, approach.

Find Scoliosis-Specific Exercises

You can use physiotherapeutic scoliosis-specific exercises (PSSEs) tailored to meet your unique needs. Scoliosis curves look C- or S-shaped when viewed from behind, but they’re more complex than they appear.

Vertebrae can rotate as the curve progresses. The spaces between vertebrae become stretched in some areas and compressed in others. Scoliosis-specific exercises address curvature and spinal rotation from multiple angles.

Your physiotherapist can teach you exercises to perform while sitting, lying down, or standing. For example, rotational angular breathing used in the Schroth method is a technique that reshapes the ribcage and its soft tissue. Perform PSSEs to enhance muscular symmetry and improve posture.

As this brief guide to treating scoliosis with SEAS methods shows, committing to your non-surgical treatment plan is important. Beyond Balance physical therapy ladders provide support during scoliosis-specific exercises and can make workouts more fun and effective. Shop with us today for high-quality physiotherapy equipment.