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I use dumbbells instead of a bar for squats, single-leg lunges, even bicep and tricep movements (so my dominant side does not take over). Dumbells for overhead shoulder work as well. Tricep dips are not possible due to my big scapula external rotation, but other body weight exercises are doable.

Very interesting podcast. I have a 60º thoracic scoliosis and started strength training 8 months ago, at 27 years old. It’s been a journey of trial and error (and pain 🥲), but I’ve learned a lot along the way. My biggest takeaway is that, as you said, using dumbbells instead of bars or prioritizing unilateral exercises can make a huge difference. I’ve also found that body-weight exercises, especially pull-ups and dips, work best for me. At first, my pull-ups (as expected) were quite unbalanced. But as I focused on improving my technique, my scapular and shoulder symmetry noticeably improved (still plenty of room for improvement). Switching to gymnastics rings for pull-ups has also been really helpful in addressing imbalances, as they allow for better natural adaptation and movement freedom. Another thing that really helped was recording my workouts to spot these imbalances and make adjustments the next day. Just wanted to share my experience in case it helps someone going through a similar process. ☺

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Great content popular RUclips video, I like it a lot. Hope everyone can learn something by watching this video

Strength Training program for my scoliosis

😂I have scoliosis❤ strength and spine program

I have scoliosis, HSD/EDS, POTS, MCAS.... One of my biggest obstacles is finding EDS friendly exercises that do NOT involve lying on my back on ANY surface, includingy bed. E.g., I love Jeannie Di Bon and do all of the exercises of hers I can, but t about 75% of them require lying on your back. I emailed her and she said she couldn't recommend modifications for legal reasons and suggested I see a PT who specializes in HSD/EDS. So I did, but she doesn't know any modifications either (I can't swim cuz my MCAS hates chlorine and saline pools are too spendy). I initially discovered my HSD/EDS while searching RUclips for scoliosis exercises that don't involve lying on your back. In 2010ish my PTs told me I was hypermobile, but the only advice they had was to avoid stretching. Of course,.stretching is WHY lying on my back hurts so much and causes flares. There is no FLAT on your back when you have a severe protrusion rising from your right thoracic area, and if I do lie on my back I am FORCING all the fascia and muscle and joints etc... that have adapted to my curve and hump for the last thirty years to be "normal." I don't have kinesophobia, but whatever the opposite of that is..., immobilophobia? IOW, I used to move no matter how I amd push through the pain. I fear atrophy and wasting, but I totally get why someone with my dilemma or similar dilemmas would develop kinesiophobia.

what degree curve do you have?

Are there side effects to creatine? I can't get a straight answer on this. I have scolliosis, and I am close to getting creatine for the first time.

I had a spinal fusion to correct my scoliosis about 6 years ago, but I still have a winged scapula. It bothers me so much and I’ve had this question for years: Is it physically possible for exercises like this to yield results in correcting a winged scapula?

Sometimes with scoliosis there are no open windows

So true. At 38 years old with my extreme scoliosis. I know this year I'm going to need to start advocating for myself. Nobody else has to live in my body. Let them think what they will. Much like everything else a person doesn't know unless they have it.

I havent had surgery. S shaped 54 and 34 degree curve. Your videos and content are making me feel less alone. I'm doing physical therapy exercises. Find it mildly disheartening that I do an hours worth of stretches every day just to feel somewhat ok and there are people twice my body weight going out for beers and lieing in bed all weekend. Who still look and feel better then I do. Almost feel like Im being punished for staying alive. On top of the pain there's the constantly looking deformed and like a hunchback. Your content is saving lives. It truly is.❤ Thank you.

This is so helpful!! Thank you :)

I have looked and looked for episode 10. Would you be able to link the video?

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I am trying interested in this. How does the scoliosis lung differ from the average person, since the average right lung is larger than the left to accommodate for the heart?

then what am I supposed to do ? as a software engineer with slight scoliosis, I defo don't want it to develop but what should I do ? I can't stand I can't sit if I sit I can't lay back I have to get up but my work doesn't allow any of this, really, what am I supposed to do ?

Thanks so much for this video! It was so helpful.

Great presentation thank you!

I’ve had 4 spinal fusions. I’ve talked with dozens of doctors about my condition I’ was born with. I’ve learned more from this lady.

Hey I feel pain regularly and have to take ibuprofen for the back ache how can I stop taking the pills and ease the pain also

100% true about social media being such a time sucker!

Gonna try this for 1 month

Very helpful.

Hi! Thank you for this video, most of all because my scoliosis got worse when I hit puberty but I didn't know all these things. I also wanted to ask you if birth control pills can affect our scoliosis negatively. Thank you in advance ❤

Thank you for this video. I found it very helpful!❤ Have you ever considered doing a video on scoliosis and aging? I’m not talking about all the things that can go wrong as you age. There is plenty of information out there on that topic! I’m finding that as I age, I need to be gentler with my body. I had PT for one year and learned Schroth exercises that really helped me. I find now that many of them are just too aggressive. My ribs are really sensitive and the intercostal muscles get overstretched so easily. I’ve been searching for scoliosis exercises that are a little gentler than those I’ve learned. I believe you have followers of all ages. There may be others would benefit from, a video on this. Thank you so much for all you do! It’s so nice to have people like you out there providing accurate information for people like me.😊

Im sorry but its clearly seems if im right

Do u have scoliosis? I think i can see it when u bended forward a curvature

Great podcast! I had heard about EDS but really didn’t know what it was all about. Such an knowledgeable and generous person she is.❤

Meghan, FANTASTIC pod cast. So, so needed. You Rock!!!

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Where is the link??? For the mattress

Thank you so much

I was diagnosed at 16 and I’m 50 now. I had a total hysterectomy at 47. I have fairly recently developed neuropathy in my feet and shins, neck stiffness, and pretty severe sciatica on my right side. I also have osteopenia. Thank God I can still sleep pretty comfortably. I am a high school teacher and I wear a back support belt religiously. It helps. Being sedentary makes it worse, which for me is in the summer and on breaks from school. I wish I had been more active before menopause because since then, I have noticed a significant increase in my discomfort levels. Heed my warning people: be as active as you can before middle age. ❤

Thank you.

Haha I'm also trying to fix my tongue posture lolol..soo many things relating to posture to keep track of. Would've been great to learn basic foundational important things like this in school growing up instead of learning algebra & other almost irrelevant information.......

All this time, I've been living in leggings and skinny jeans, not realising I will have been working against my Scoliosis. I am about to get a brace.

I am in Charleston SC!I just found your podcast.Thank you for what you are doing.

Kerry should have a "gadget'" sale exclusive to Ahead of The Curve or her followers. RE: mother in law saving and sharing things, when I had my first PRECIOUS child, my MIL brought me used, 30 + yr. old cloth diapers to use on MY new baby. IDK, maybe I'm just ungrateful. RE: Genetics, My paternal grandmother had significant kyphosis and my younger son has sever Sheurmanns in his upper back. He also has a side mild scoliosis and a 45 degree compensation curve in his lower back. Re: Kerry's relatives, I believe my scoliosis comes from my Late in Life dx of hEDS (and genetics). Sounds like Kerry related to some of the notable comorbideties common to EDS in her relatives. Re: Dr. Huckaby - that's a fascinating theory re: not healing after dx. I can relate on both sides, since I was dx so young with scoliosis and had 12" fusion at age 10, or because I'm so stubborn, I never acknowledged my condition, even when girls teased me or avoided me in swim team because my scar was fresh and my curvature is so evident, despite fusion, I just carried on, I dove, I got a horse and I never worried about having children. However, the struggles have been there throughout. (Probably exacerbated by the hEDS which I didn't know was a thing ) On the other hand, ( re: Dr. Huckaby related to dx and healing) I still float the river of De-nial, but since dx with hEDS and learning ALL that is related to it, including scoliosis, my determination and drive HAS wained. I now DO more often acknowledge symptoms instead of battling through. It's like the Dx of hEDS has given me an answer to many symptoms, but also an excuse to give them their due, ie: tell myself "this is because or I can't because or I'm sick because - and those thoughts are all true, it's just that before dx, I would just push through with more of a thought of 'I don't know why I'm sick/hurt, just battle on." Discovering my dx with a geneticist was at first a relief, as it answered so many life long questions and had a name, but the very next reveal was that "there is no cure/ treatment," which leaves you with "WTH." and a feeling of defeat. I'm gonna find Dr. Huckaby and share with her. Re: Chidren, My first child was 6 weeks early, locked at zero station 1. because my torso is so short, and 2. my sciatica was so bad in pregnancy I was in PT and their PT for me was to put myself in child's pose, face down for stretches of time, trying to stretch out the the lower spine but ultimately completely squishing my baby into zero station. He was literally premature because he was stuck, didn't move for two days prior and being born saved his life. My body ejected him to save him I think. With my second child my pelvic separated early (most likely due to hEDS) so I was semi bed ridden for much of the term and he was full term - again, with a limited torso, there wasn't much room, I'm little and he was 8 lbs. These are the things that never entered my mind as fear or even in the throws of it, I never thought "this is because of my back, I just took each event as it came. Re: Swimwear I have yet to EVER find a swim suit that fits. One piece is always too long in the Torso and like you, my top is DDD+ but the rest of me is not. SO Frustrating ! Also, my convex curve pushes my shoulder blade out so much that tops (bras) want to migrate or somehow, that cup size seems different than the left. I NEED support but recently I had to abandon all underwire due to extreme GERD, I have a hiatal hernia from hEDS and short torso, but since I trashed the underwire, I'm much better. ? ? ? RE: Traveling with couch cushions, I travel with a seat size wedge - I HAVE TO, it's like a booster seat because my torso is so short but also I need the angle for my lower back. Only left it on a plane once ( $$ ) Re: Dead hang, and thump gun, I have a 12" fusion, I have been told to never use the inversion table ever due to hEDS. I have an inversion table and I miss hanging so much. I haven't had an issue using it in the distant past, but I am afraid to use it since I was advised not to. Then again, I recently woke up with a neck vertebrae rotated and three rib heads out of place from simply laying in bed. Crying in pain a kin to being in labor - no dead hang. I succumbed and allowed my hubby to take to me to a chiropractor. I was terrified but Dr. was not and he quickly (really terrifyingly ) put the ribs back and adjusted my bone on bone neck, he then used a thera gun. It was very scary but I have been "stable" since. I get vestibular vertigo periodically, it comes on unrelated to vibration, but I also have a thump type massager that I use on my back and shoulders and I personally have yet to have vertigo come on after using it. It does make one very itchy after. re: impact activities, I was never educated as to what would happen to my spine BEYOND the fission (above and bellow T4 - T12) and that is extreme wear and tear, equating to advanced/early DDD so my neck is bone on bone at age 60, not painful, just limiting in rotation and movement. Had I an understanding, I would have avoided the amount of diving I did with impact on my head I would have focused better on core and strengthening supporting muscles and less on jumping around with not much thought, horse back riding, rollerskating, cheerleading, I say that , BUT I was a child and I'm glad I didn't have mental limits or hang ups or I would not have played with abandon and enjoyed my time so freely. Yes, I am paying for it now a bit. Not having scoliosis "limit" my life, I also did not consider my career choices. I licensed as a hair stylist in my 20's and herniated a disc in the lower S spine within the first two years. So my question is, WITH fusion, Chiropractor or NO Chiropractor? Treatment got me out of pain right away, in the past I have gone up to 6 weeks in agony and not even able to dress or pull up my own pants, take a breath, yawn, sneeze. With hEDS and Spinal Fusion, the idea of Chiro is seriously terrifying to me, but I know he helped me.

hi Dr. Teed! I am so grateful I found this video; I have a standing desk and try to avoid sitting due to my left lumbar curve, though it is tiring trying to stand all day. I’ve been looking for a really versatile chair and the HAG Capisco looks perfect. I am curious if you can share any feedback on the fabric you chose (there are so many options!); is it comfortable/easy to clean? Would you recommend the fabric you chose? I like the color and was curious if it was the “quota” color? Thank you!

Great little joints video, another little gem to add to my toolbox ;)

The Art of Allowing helps us vision and see what is possible. Moving out of pain and stuckness also comes in allowing the pain and struggle, knowing there is something in it for us, and allowing for better days ahead. ✨️