When I was thirteen, my school nurse discovered that I had scoliosis. I had been complaining about back pain for years, but my parents dismissed it as ‘growing pains’ but what they didn’t know is, my road to recovery would have been a lot easier if it had been caught sooner. After a phone call to my parents and a doctor visit later, they theorized that due to my childhood malnutrition and genetics I may have grown too fast for my muscles to handle and so they pulled my spine to one side, off balance.
If it would have been caught when I was young, physical therapy would have been the easy method to help hold my spine in place while I grew but instead I now have a longer, more difficult road with more consequences if it continues to be ignored. After a few years of chiropractor after chiropractor I found one that used physical therapy software. With it he explained how much easier it was to keep track of payments and progress.
He used this little machine that could electronically track each vertebrae of my spine, it’s position and angle. With this he could better decide how to treat me without hurting my fragile nerves that are abnormally close to the skin because of the movement. It’s only been two years of treatment but with his physical therapy software it is looking like I will be able to avoid the wheelchair as an adult!