The Silicon Valley Scoliosis Method

If your child has been diagnosed with scoliosis, chances are your doctors diagnosed it as idiopathic. Idiopathic means that the cause it not known, and most doctors treat idiopathic scoliosis like we can NEVER know the cause, and because of this are powerless to stop it. This is dangerous because if we ignore the cause, the driving force making the curve worse is left unchecked. Ignoring the cause is a recipe for disaster as the curve gets worse with growth. Why is only the symptom being treated? What if we could treat the cause?

During  every spinal fusion surgery to treat scoliosis surgeons have to “release contractures”. Contractures are ligaments, muscles, and tissues that have become stiff from not being moved through their normal range of motion due to the spine being stuck in a curved position. To “release” contractures, surgeons must cut them out, destroying the tissue. If a surgeon needs to cut out contractures to be able to straighten the spine surgically, imagine how contractures would affect and limit trying to straighten the spine non-surgically.

Traditional scoliosis treatment uses a brace to hold the spine where it is. This is wrong. To ensure treatment success, science shows that how straight the spine is in the brace is key. Yet most braces for scoliosis simply hold the spine where it is, or provide poor in-brace correction. Quite often the brace is designed remotely: the designer never meets the patient or knows their case, and designs the brace from a scan someone else performed.

A child is constantly growing, and so your child’s brace is continuously improved to ensure even as your child grows it is straightening their spine as much as possible. Bracing reinvented means that every aspect of the bracing process is designed for your child’s body and curve from the ground up. From the initial scan for the brace, to the design itself, and even the continual improvements made to the brace, every step is done by the same doctor who works with your child ensuring it is as comfortable and effective as it can be. Coupled with treating the root cause and contractures as part of the Silicon Valley Scoliosis Method, the brace straightens the spine ensuring your scoliosis story is as successful as it can be.Learn how we brace differently

The Silicon Valley Scoliosis Method uses a variety of traditional and innovative exercises designed so that anyone can do them correctly and safely by themselves. These exercises help straighten every curve in a child’s spine, while helping to strengthen the heart, lungs, and supporting muscles of the spine to enhance your treatment result. These exercises allow the Silicon Valley Scoliosis Method to not only treat your child’s curve, but prepare their body and spine for a healthy adulthood once the brace comes off.

One common fear of using a brace to treat a curve is that the spine and body will weaken during bracing; causing reduced heart and lung function and other issues. It is very common for a brace to be prescribed without any exercises, despite the fact that research shows exercise to enhance bracing results. Even when exercises are prescribed exercises can be tedious and difficult to do on your own, and doing the wrong exercise can even make a curve worse.

For a very long time scoliosis was essentially treated blind. If the effectiveness of a treatment needs to be evaluated by looking at the spine, but to do so requires the use of x-ray, yet using x-ray exposes the child to harmful radiation, the only solution is to limit the use of x-ray. Because x-ray use is limited, the spine can only be looked at once or twice a year effectively making treatment blind. It’s difficult to solve a problem when you can only look at it twice a year.

The Silicon Valley Scoliosis Method solves this problem by using standing MRI to look at the spine, eliminating all radiation completely and enabling us to check the spine as often as we need. This allows us to refine and improve every part of treatment to ensure the spine is as straight as it can be every step of the way. This revolutionary way to look at the spine and its ability to guide every other part of the Silicon Valley Scoliosis Method is crucial to the 100% success rate we have in preventing surgery for curves 30 degrees and under.