A 15-year-old girl comes for a consultation with her parents to treat diffuse and focal back pain (D8, L2) and a marked scoliosis (45° left concavity at D8).
The young girl presents somatization areas on the stomach and the small pelvis. These tensions alone do not explain such angulation. Here too, the deep level must be analyzed, i.e. the emotional memories that have a significant influence on the spinal structure, the postural level and the individual's behavior.
One of these emotional tensions, also present on the stomach, creates a vertical shear between the 2 lateralities. We know that a vertebral inclination is always associated with a rotation and a flexion or extension. D8 undergoes this constraint which is then compensated by the over and under floors. This constraint has existed since early childhood, leading to a progressive worsening of the posture and angulation.
She has had a corset for 2 months, but the constraint is hard for her to manage. The corset applies opposing pressure that is supposed to straighten the spine, but this only increases the patient's resistance. It is like someone applying continuous force on your shoulder, destabilizing you; you resist and apply opposing force instead of letting go, dominated by that force.
With the parents' agreement, we put the corset on hold and treat the girl a little closer together so as not to let the emotional tension pattern reoccur. Between May and September, at the rate of one session per month, the angulation fell to 27°. Here it is only the scoliotic attitude that is corrected; the true anatomical scoliosis will not change.
The doctors were amazed at such a development in such a short time; the mother had not told them that she had never put on the corset...
nb: this is not her X-ray picture
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