Jeff LangmaidFounder, The Evidence Based Chiropractor

Exercise + Manual Therapy: Proven Benefits for Scoliosis

2 Dec 2024 · 0 min

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A short recorded presentation by Jeff Langmaid reporting that participants who received a combined exercise and manual therapy intervention for scoliosis showed improvements compared with controls. Reported benefits include reduced Cobb angle, better quality of life, improved movement capabilities, increased spinal mobility, and improvements in some trunk-shape indexes; the magnitude and rate of change were larger in the intervention group.

So let's get into the exciting stuff and that's the discussion and the results. Improvements in Cobb angle, quality of life, movement capabilities, spinal mobility, and some of the trunk shape indexes were observed in the participants in the intervention group who got the exercise and the manual therapy. The change value and rate of change was also larger in the intervention group than the control group, demonstrating the benefits of combining exercise and manual therapy in scoliosis.