She’s had scoliosis her whole life but her pain has gotten so bad over the past few years she has been using a wheel chair on and off. Her MD prescribed her pain medications but she doesn’t like taking them so she just took over the counter medications instead.

Sam had a 68 degree scoliosis curvature so he referred her to an orthopedist who told her she really needed scoliosis surgery but he couldn’t guarantee her that she would she be free of pain afterwards so she said no thank you. So she resigned herself to being confined to a wheelchair for the rest of her life. In fact, we had bought a house and were going to redo it to make it handicap accessible for her.

So when we came to Spinecor Treatment of Cary the best we hoped for was to stabilize her spine and relieve some of her pain. She got the brace and right away she noticed a big difference. They taught her the Schroth Method of scoliosis exercises. I’ve noticed that she has had a lot of improvement by doing these exercises at home.

The next time we returned for a follow up she her scoliosis had reduced by fifteen degrees! and she said she felt like a totally different person. Other people who know her also commented that she looked different too. She looked more relaxed because she was no longer in constant pain. What’s even better is that she no longer has to rely on a wheelchair to get around.

Because Dr. Deutchman and Dr. Lamantia helped develop the Spinecor brace for use with adults, so I would recommend them to any adult who has scoliosis because they’ve fit more adults in the Spinecor brace than any other providers in the United States.

In my opinion, the combination of using the Spinecor brace and the Schroth Method scoliosis exercises is the best type of alternative scoliosis treatment you can get.

We went to the orthopedist in town and he told us that her curve was like 21 degrees. When we asked what they could do for her and they recommended doing nothing and said that they would just watch and wait for now. When it gets bad enough, they’d put her in a hard brace and if it progresses far enough they would look to put steel rods up her spine.

This came as quite a shock to us and made us very downhearted at that time, so we decided to do our own research to try to see if we could find some type of scoliosis treatment rather than just
waiting for the inevitable to happen.

That’s when wee found Scoliosis Systems on the internet. When we first read the site it seemed to be almost too good to be true but we were intrigued so we called and spoke to Dr. Deutchman who explained the program to us over the phone. Afterwards we discussed it and since we wanted to be proactive we felt like we really needed to come and try this so we scheduled an appointment.

They checked Mattea’s spine and looked at the x-rays and told us that her curve was not quite as bad as we were initially told. It was only around 17 degree. They recommended that we put her in a flexible SpineCor scoliosis brace instead of a hard brace like the
orthopedist had recommended. They said they had high hopes that they could help her.

At the time she was only 8 years old. So we went for it, feeling like we had nothing to loose and everything to gain.

When we came back in six weeks for a check up, everything looked good. Then when we came back after another six weeks things were even better. The bend in her spine was down below 10 degrees. In my eyes this was miraculous!

So as we kept coming back every so often to just make sure the bend was staying straight at one point it got down to only 3 degrees.

Since Mattea was so young and she was doing so well, the doctor’s decided to let her be out of this brace for awhile to give her a chance to be a little girl, even though the brace was not – it’s cumbersome at all. They continued to monitor her over this time.

So she was able to be out of the brace for about a year but the doctors had told us when she got to a certain age that her growth spurts begins, that would be the prime time that if her scoliosis was going to return it would likely happen then.

They were right again. During one of her follow appointments at a time that she was growing like a weed we found out that her curve had reoccurred. It had gone up to 12 degrees, so we put in back in the Spinecor brace, kept her in it for six months and it
went back down to 7 degrees.

We’ve been back a couple times since then and it had stayed there. She’s been out of the brace now for three months and the curve has stayed less than 7 degrees, so she is now technically free of scoliosis. This has been a blessing and miraculous event in our life. Thank you very much Dr. Deutchman.