Scoliosis from long term unbalanced muscle tension / lyme, any one else?

Anyone else have this?

Ive partially corrected my structure here and there, I was in a lot of pain from 2000 to about 2015.

Ive learned and done many different types of PT and muscle / tendon / and fascia release, almost enough to treat people if I had the legal training to do so.

Scoliosis is any vertebrae tilted 10 degrees or more, often with the spine in a "C" or more complicated "S" shape.

A "C" spine shape can be treated with muscle strength training on one side , stretch the other side.

Scoliosis is difficult and sometimes the result of you body over-correcting to the point where you now have, over time, non-symmetrical muscle size/growth. And conventional medicine, again, fails miserably in this area. They support symptoms and watch the patient get worse. Most Pain clinics appear to treat these people pumping them full of the latest pain meds.

I have a gradual double 8-12 degree "S" and I treat the whole body, as twisted / uneven hips and shoulders contribute to this.... or are the result of it (catch 22?).

This is part of, in my case, what I call "Lyme damage". The countless competitive impact injuries I received from early teen years to late thirties would not heal correctly and my spine slowly morphed into this slightly twisted curvature. Ive improved it, but the sad fact is this will prob be there the rest of my life to some degree which.....sucks since I like to be an active person.

All the PT aside and standard Chiro, NUNCA (spelling?) is the only controversial Chiro specialty I,ve not tried well, and acupuncture.

I may bump up this post time to time due to its rarity of posts here.

Scoliosis forums are mostly worthless with brainwashed people settling for pain and spine surgery. The "meatheads" on bodybuilding forums with this (rare) cant explain anything in detail (thus>"meatheads" LOL).

Oddly enough, at one time, the strongest man in the world per body weight was a small framed dude (but extremely built) who could deadlift something incredible. He had more than mild scoliosis. Big S curve.

With this spine S curve, I have to careful with this in the gym and doing certain outdoor activities. I appear to be very fit, let alone being close to mid 50's, BUT, I obviously have limitations from this. I hate limitations but usually figure them out. This one has limited information available.

I wish there was something like an "Athletes with Scoliosis" forum. I was part of several competitive "communities" for years and its fun to go back now as a spectator, often bumping into people from the past. They often want to know what happened since I was quite involved, where I went ect...............the "lyme story" is not easy to break into. Now I can use age as an excuse to spectate LOL.

I believe that my scoliosis resulted from Lyme. My LLND doesn't agree. I hope that someone will do more research on this topic.

This is my own experience, I am writing about hoping that somebody may find this hopeful.

When I was 9 (early 70s) after the tick bite I started having all classic symptoms of Lyme disease. Among them muscle twitches and later severe weakness on my right side of the upper body and hump over right shoulder blade. By age 11 I was diagnosed with scoliosis ( I don't remember details). I started intensive physical therapy 2 hours, 6 days a week. It lasted for 2 years. The therapist used combination of his own method and Schroth method. The Schroth method is explained here
https://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/05/12/hope-for-an-s-shaped-back/
and here
https://www.hudsonvalleyscoliosis.com/schroth-method-scolosis-treatment/
It worked, my muscles got stronger, I started using right hand again. But till this day I have to exercise almost every day.

Post Edited (Duza) : 12/8/2019 10:19:37 AM (GMT-7)

Pilates is a great help in balancing my scoliosis.

Blakeley's mom - I see an upper cervical chiropractor - who only adjusts the Atlas.

My mom had headaches for many, many years....all through my childhood. Then she heard about the chiro who does the upper cervical adjustment. Headaches gone...for good.

I started going as well.