What's the best exercise for scoliosis?

Probably one of the most common questions we get asked by our students.

Listen to find out the answer.

Resources mentioned in the episode:

• Lamar Gant the first human to deadlift 5x bodyweight here
• Dalton Lacoe deadlifting 5x bodyweight here
• No statistical correlation between the severity of back symptoms
• and the type or severity of the spinal curvature here
• Back pain statistically more common but not more severe, in people with scoliosis than the general population here
• Patients with scoliosis perceive improvements after an exercise program regardless of change in Cobb angle here
• Poor evidence for all treatments for scoliosis including exercise here
• Very poor quality evidence for spinal fusion in adolescent idiopathic scoliosis here and here
• Lack of evidence to support scoliosis-specific exercises here
• The Schroth method RCT; an example of bad science here
• Actual definition of cherry picking (which we never got around to defining!) here

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