- ♪ Bob and Brad, the two most famous ♪
♪ physical therapists on the internet. ♪
- Hi, folks, I'm Bob Schrupp, physical therapist.
- Brad Heineck, physical therapist.
- Together, we are the most famous physical therapists
on the internet.
- In our opinion, of course, Bob.
- Well, Brad, today our title's gonna be
The Schroth Method for Scoliosis,
Juvenile Kyphosis, and Scheuermann's Kyphosis.
- Okay, so we got three diagnoses
all treated by the same system.
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just like in this. - And that's what
we're doing today,
right, Brad? - Exactly.
- We found out we have no expertise in this at all,
and so we had tried, but we didn't do a very good job,
and so, when you have one of these issues,
one of the scoliosis or kyphosis,
you need a trained therapist who's gonna work with you
'cause the particulars of your situation
are gonna require different approaches.
- Right.
Not that we're not trained,
but we're not trained in that specific
field. - Area, right.
So what we're gonna do after this is we got Beth Janssen,
she actually graduated a year after I did.
We both were graduates of the
Mayo School of Health Related Sciences.
- Right over here in Rochester.
- Yeah.
Is it that way?
- I don't know, Minnesota.
- Anyway, so she went on and studied the Schroth Method
from a guy in Europe, a doctor in Europe,
and she came back to the United States
and now she's opened a clinic,
I believe she opened the clinic, in Steven's Point
and there's also one in San Jose, California.
- And Steven's Point,
that's 30 miles from where I was born and raised, so...
- Where my daughter went to school for speech therapy.
- These people don't care about that.
- They do, too.
They wanna know about our lives.
- Sure.
- All right, what we're also gonna have below
is a lot of references that you can look up.
I want you to look at also, especially the one that says
it's the schroth-barcelonainstitute.com
'cause what that'll give you is
a list of therapists by state
who can treat these type of things.
So you don't have to be
in Steven's Point or in California to get treatment,
you just have to look up to find one of these therapists
who's trained in this Schroth Method.
- Right, and hopefully,
there'll be one not too far from where you live
and you can get
the proper treatment. - Yeah, and you
get the treatment, right.
So thanks, Beth, for providing us with this
and she'll give an introduction to the method.
- All right, maybe I'll see you
around Steven's Point sometime.
- Yeah, yeah. (laughing)
- Thanks. - I'll go up there and visit.
- All right, sounds good.
(laughing)
- Hi, I'm Beth Janssen, a physical therapist
from Scoliosis Rehab in Steven's point, Wisconsin.
First of all, I wanna take a moment to thank Bob and Brad,
the most famous PTs on the internet,
for allowing me to speak about one of my passions,
the use of physical therapy, scoliosis specific exercises,
to help people with scoliosis.
The main method that I use is the Schroth Method.
It was started in the 1920s in Germany
by a woman who had scoliosis, Katharina Schroth.
She noticed the asymmetries in her body
and she put herself in a room full of mirrors
and tried to move her body around
to bring more balance and symmetry to her body.
Once she found the most symmetrical position
in 3D that she could, she worked on strengthening exercises.
She was later joined by her daughter and grandson
in developing this method.
The method spread throughout Europe,
specifically to Barcelona, and Dr. Manuel Rigo
is an MD in Barcelona, Spain who has done a lot of work
in developing this method.
This method is used for people with structural scoliosis.
Historically, it was used
mostly for people with idiopathic scoliosis
and adults with idiopathic scoliosis.
It can also be used with people with congenital scoliosis
with some adaptations.
Idiopathic scoliosis is a complex,
three-dimensional deformity of the spine and trunk.
It happens in healthy children
and can progress related to multiple factors,
especially times of rapid growth and also later on in life.
So we use this 3D posture correction
and then strengthen the body in the new corrected posture.
The intensity of the exercises and intervention
is based on the risk of progression.
The greatest time for the risk of progression
is when someone enters their adolescent growth spurt.
That's why many children, when they reach adolescence,
are braced for several years.
We recommend a certain brace,
which is a hyper corrective brace based regional principles,
and at the end of this,
you'll see some references where you can look things up.
We recommend that the treatment for idiopathic scoliosis
is done by a treatment team.
It should involve the patient, the family,
a physician, a physical therapist, an orthotist if needed,
and perhaps, because of the stress it puts on the family,
some family counseling.
These methods, this method and scoliosis specific exercises
are enjoying, recently, some really good research,
so if you wanna learn more
about the specifics of these scoliosis specific exercises,
I invite you to look at the open access scientific journal
called "Scoliosis and Spinal Disorders."
Educate yourself about this,
and get the best care for your family.
Thank you.