Nearly everyone can benefit from practicing yoga, even those living with scoliosis. Learn which beginning yoga poses can help you strengthen your core, decrease your pain, and focus on your breathing.
While scoliosis may occur in up to 10% of the population, severe scoliosis requiring surgery is rare. A young girl and her mother share their story of how severe scoliosis has affected their lives.
Scoliosis and kyphosis are sideways and forward deformities of the spine that can lead to both aesthetic and functional issues for patients. Patients who are in the advanced stages of these deformities may even have problems with breathing and digestive tract function.
