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Spine Strong: Physical Therapy & Scoliosis Rehabilitation

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Spine Strong: Physical Therapy & Scoliosis Rehabilitation

We help adolescents, athletes and adults with Scoliosis, Kyphosis and other musculoskeletal pain dis

05/22/2020

[Spine Decompression Exercise] All-4 Belly Lift
🔹Mid or lower back pain during exercise, prolonged walking/standing or lifting activities?
🔹Usually when I see a bird dog, hip extension exercises or “core strengthening” exercise demonstration for someone with scoliosis in the clinic, I often see clients lose their control of their deep abdominals leading to “excessive arching” or increased lordosis is the lower thoracic/lumbar region right at the transitional point between their 2 curvatures.
🔹This exercise is a go-to to allow you to maintain control of your back extension but more importantly use that tensioning to allow air to travel back and decompress the spine.
🎈And when you get maintain that tension and feel your full breath on the inhale and exhale filling your cavities in the back, then you got the golden ticket!
👉 Give it a try as instructed and hope it helps!
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05/21/2020

[Curve Repositioning Exercise] 90/90 Hip Lift With Balloon
🔹The idea here is simple, how can we beat position our body and use our breath with a little resistance to optimize your curvature a decompress the spine ....well this one is it!
🔹Whether you have a thoracic or lumbar primary, the main goal is to tension the hamstrings and adductors using a block and stool to position the pelvis right under the rib cage, which will then allow you to breath all that air out and position the front left rib cage down to get the diaphragm in its best position with assistance from your left ab wall to allow airflow to go back, into the right chest wall and shunt air into your areas of needed expansion.
🎈The balloon acts for you to better manage pressure by making you work hard to maintain your position throughout the entire routine, plus gives you the visual perception of what you are doing in your body ...expanding and stabilizing with each breath
👉 Give it a try as instructed and hope it helps!
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05/19/2020

[Exercise Video] 1/2 Kneeling Face Pull
🔹With a right thoracic curvature, whether it is your primary curve or not, the shoulder blade tends to sit forward, up and out to the side on the rib cage.
🔹I love to program this after having someone perform a rib/pelvis repositioning technique such as one of the go-to Schroth exercises as an “integration” to enhance right shoulder stability with focus on engagement of the left ab wall to help hold the left rib down.
🔹Give it a try as instructed and hope it helps!
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👉Stay strong💪

05/12/2020

Do you always feel like you are shifted to one side?

Do you have pain down one side of your body?

Do you feel like you just can’t gain a better “sense” of what it’s like to be able to use both sides of your body well?

When working with patients with scoliosis, getting person to expand and contract is pretty powerful, but not as close to getting a person to sense they have expansion! We always ask the person what they sense
🔹Every day when you wake up, I implore you to just stand up first thing in the morning (even right after you hit the head), to see if where you sense your body on your feet
🔹Forward on the balls of your feet? Mainly on your left or right foot?
🔹Our neurological system places us in a pattern on a daily basis which can change pending how you slept, levels of stress, lack of recovery from exercise and so many other factors, that its always trying to get us in the path of least resistance, but sometimes to make us able to reciprocate and use both sides of our body well, we need to change that neurological “sense” and do some of the corrective exercises we talk about on this page!
🔹Our bodies need to re-learn how to regulate themselves with a dynamic flow in order to not let us be so dominant on one side or always in a state of extension feeling the majority of our weight on our toes.
🔹By using your breath during your “repositioning techniques” we can move air into the back, gaining a better sense on our heels, and repositioning airflow through rib cage management helps our neurological sensory awareness by moving air from one side to the other with respect to front/back/side
🔹We can always use these “patterns of airflow” and “expansion techniques” to reposition “sense” of flow (how am I breathing and where is it going) because we always want to have air flow and flow of movement from one side of our body to the other!

03/27/2020

Hello and welcome! Putting a face to the name! This week we’ll be talking about ways to optimize low back pain, position and putting it all together so you can exercise, move and do the things you love in less pain and more confidence!

10/08/2019

We help adolescents, athletes and adults with scoliosis, kyphosis and other spine-related disorders get back to sports, exercising, and the passionate ventures they love…all while avoiding the use of pain medication and unwanted surgeries.
We will give you the tools to feel better, improve your posture, and empower you to become stronger than ever before ...Helping you move well, then move strong. “Feel better, move stronger, thrive longer”

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251 Danforth Street
Portland, ME
04102

Opening Hours

Monday	6:30am - 6pm
Tuesday	6:30am - 6pm
Wednesday	6:30am - 6pm
Thursday	6:30am - 6pm
Friday	6:30am - 6pm

Website

http://www.spinestrongpt.com/

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