Today's Daily Tip Teaching Yoga for ScoliosisAs someone who has
lived with scoliosis, and dedicated much of my life to teaching
students with scoliosis, I can attest to the power of yoga to
help manage and treat this condition. If you are interested in
working with students who have scoliosis, you'll need a basic
primer on the condition as well as some specific asana
suggestions to treat it. What is Scoliosis? Perhaps the most
dramatic of spinal aberrations, scoliosis appears in cave
paintings of prehistoric man and was first treated with braces
by the Creek physician Hippocrates in the fourth century B.C,
Not only does it create spinal deformity and rib displacement,
it twists the shoulders and hips and shifts the body's center of
gravity. Its most obvious symptoms are cosmetic, but pain and
cardiopulmonary complications (due to compression of the heart
and lungs) are also common. The word "scoliosis" is derived from
the Greek word skol, which means twists and turns. In scoliosis,
the spine forms an S curve