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  • fina14314
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    April 26, 2012 at 6:40 am
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    in reply to: Scoliosis- getting worse #9593

    thanks 🙂 We’ll let me start by saying that I haven’t responded because I now have injured my back. 3 slipped discs. L2 through S1 with the disc between L5 and S1 being the worse.
    My husband is all for me coming to Costa Rica, and if it wasn’t for my clients, I would do it! I fully intend to attend the next teacher training, or i’ll fly out to Australia. I just need someone to WATCH me closely, as I firmly believe that this can help me!!.
    So i’ve seen a lot of doctors over the last two weeks, chiropractors, cranial-sacral guys, a spine scientist, everybody and anybody that can help me. the good news is that i’m in great shape and flexible. I had a profound two hours with the Spine “scientist” who was amazing!! Basically my Illiopsoas is inflamed, contracted, etc. (because i’ve also been having a wicked stomach pain with my disc problem)
    ugh – i’m getting off track. To answer your question
    I try my darnedest to keep my legs straight in the Standing Separate Leg Stretch. I am Super hypermobile. I hyper extend 60% in my right leg and 45% in my left leg. (measures from Spine Specialist) I try so hard to keep them straight without “popping them backwards” i try to see my hips to make sure its level I naturally shift into my Right leg, so I try to shift back to my left.
    And I wrap my hands around the outside of my ankles. Fingers and thumbs under the heel.

    thank you so much!!! You are so helpful and here in LA i’ve spent $1000 in the last two weeks seeing “dr’s” that are too cool to take insurance!!!

    Anyway- do you ever let people come out to Australia to train with you? may is so close, so I obviously cant just drop things and go, but I could later on 🙂

    THANKS AGAIN!

    fina14314
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    April 2, 2012 at 8:21 pm
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    in reply to: Scoliosis- getting worse #9534

    Hi, thank you so much for responding. I had been checking back everyday to see if you had written back, so I apologise now for ME taking so long.
    To answer your questions,
    I am a pilates instructor, I stand all day. Occasionally at a computer on my breaks, but for the most part I am standing and instructing.
    I do not cross my legs, EVER. I used to, but about a year ago i stopped. When I did, it always used to be right over left. That’s most comfortable for me.
    Standing bow is much easier with left leg balancing right leg up.
    Spine twist the second side is much harder even to keep the sit bones down on both sides…
    When I do go I go about 4-5 times a week. I consistently go, for as long as I can, then I start to get lower back pain. Sacrum area.
    My problem, frustration is that I KNOW my body, I have teaching pilates for 7 years with a kinesiology background. I do ONE lung breathing during the warm up to get into that one side etc…
    I have a double curve thoracic and lumbar and an oppositional rotation thoracic and lumbar.
    So what’s good for the top, is bad for the bottom….
    I have read your story I believe, but did you have a double curve? I am pretty severe at 53 thoracic and 48 lumbar…

    Looking forward to your thoughts,

    fina14314
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    September 11, 2010 at 8:18 pm
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    in reply to: scoliosis and hyper extending knees #7710

    I’m sorry i realized i never really answered your question. I feel pain in the morning and at night, when brushing my teeth for example, I can’t bend straight down over the sink, I need to go a roundabout way to bend over. And after standing for a while. those are the main triggers. I sleep like a baby tho 😉 So luckily that has not been effected!

    fina14314
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    September 11, 2010 at 8:15 pm
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    in reply to: scoliosis and hyper extending knees #7709

    THank you, the post on hyper extending did really help me! As far as the back goes. I am Never experiencing pain in class, if i could, i would stay in class all day long. I am experiencing lower back pain. Consistantly on my lower left side. I’d say QL, and a bit lower. I am also feeling pain in my neck, upper trap on the right side. I am really focused on my form when I am in class, never pushing farther than i can without having the best form that i can. For example in the “fixed firm pose” I try to really lift my right ribs up (because my left rib protrudes more) so that they are both equal. And when i’m doing rabbit pose, I try and stretch more on my concave side and look at my stomach and try and pull my belly in and pull the ribs in as equal as possible. Half moon, I push as hard as i can on both sides, and I’ve notice that I feel movement in my lower back. I feel like a “hallow sound” NOT like your cracking your back, but more like things are moving out of the way for other things. Ha that just sounds ridiculous. But all that being said, I am making adjustments trying to keep everything stacked, and aligned as best as I can. Should i be trying to make those adjustments with my ribs and back? I feel like I am “helping the correction along a little bit” But i don’t know 😉

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