Can bad posture cause scoliosis?
No, it doesn’t cause scoliosis but doesn’t benefit us either. Sitting in a slouch position or walking with our heads drooping forward it can only add insult to injury, if you know what I mean. So let’s think about that for a moment. If we spend the day curved forward hour after hour, day after day, year after year can that influence our health and aggravate the curvature of the spine? Yes and the end result is called kyphosis. (A forward curvature of the spine.) Erin is the perfect example of a history case involving a kyphotic spine, which was corrected by postural awareness. I was visiting my sister-in-law Vicki, during a school break from Chiropractic College West, and she asked me what could be done to help her daughter Erin. She was concerned with Erin’s severe forward curvature of the spine. I told her I would definitely adjust Erin that day, to help with some of the backache, but I believed there wasn’t much more that could be done. Erin was twenty years old and as such, she had
