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hey guys in this video we’re talking about the  best stretch for scoliosis now scoliosis is kind  

of a curvature of the spine and this stretch is  very very unique so let’s pretend we’re looking  

from the back at a person and they have a kind  of a C curve in the upper back and then it goes  

to a C curve on the lower back so you would think  that you would want to stretch this out by bending  

into the left right it makes sense because these  are tighter the muscles on the right are tighter  

than the left but that’s not how you do it what  you want to do is you want to stretch the person  

this way into the concavity okay and then the  lower part you want to stretch them into the  

concavity of the opposite way I’ll demo this  on someone but that way when you stretch these  

muscles over here by going this way it will  send an electrical signal over to the tight  

side and it will relax the tight muscles and it  allows for it to come back up now scoliosis is  

usually if it’s a adult it’s kind of a permanent  thing but you could do these stretches for a lot  

of relief because people scoliosis have a lot  of muscle tension their back is in a constant  

spasm so definitely you want to do this so let  me just show you how to do this on a person okay  

guys I’m going to just do this demo I actually  changed my shirt here you can see so let’s just  

pretend that she has a curve this way okay it’s  curving this way now you would think that you  

would just need to stretch her back over this  way and that’s not how you do it what you want  

to do is you want to get on this side and you  want to get someone to do this and you grab  

the upper back here you take your thumb and you  press into the concavity just like this now you  

could probably you know if you were by yourself  what you could do you could take a foam roller  

and put it on this side and lay like this so you  actually exaggerate the curve okay now if it’s  

curved the other way on this side we press it  down like this and again what you would do is  

you would lay down with the little foam roller on  this side to exaggerate make it worse because what  

what I do is when we stretch the spine into where  it’s curved into the concavity when we stretch  

that we’re actually stretching the muscles on this  side okay and this is sending little neurological  

signals to this side to allow this to come up  to relax because when you have a scoliosis and  

it’s curved on the side there’s contact that’s  where you have the spasm which will tighten it’s  

pulling down so all we have to do is we have to  it’s kind of counterintuitive but we’re going  

to stretch this side it stretches stretch to  this side it stretched this side right here it  

sends signals and it starts to open this up so  you’re going to give the person a lot release  

because it’s not kind of necessarily straighten  the spine out perfectly but it will help now if  

you can do this when they’re very young works  really good I mean you can actually possibly  

reverse scoliosis but normally people had it for a  long time so you just want to give it first a lot  

of relief especially because of all the muscle  spasm to them so so remember wherever the curve  

is so you would want to look on an x-ray or just  look in the mirror and see which way it’s going  

or have someone feel the spine and it always  stretch into where the curve is concave okay  

don’t try to straighten up and put your comments  below thanks for watching hey guys thank you so  

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