Stretches for Scoliosis

Notes

  • Consult your PT or doctor before starting these!

  • Use pain as your guide

  • Go slow!

  • Pick what you like/ feels good

  • Skip what you don’t!/ Is painful/ Is too uncomfortable

  • Hold each stretch for 30 seconds, or alternatively flow slowly back and forth out of it

Lower Trunk Rotations: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcjYO7kwjmg&ab_channel=Strength%26SportPT

Cat/ Camel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhopC0YeB2c&ab_channel=Strength%26SportPT

Side to Side Cat Camel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtUG5V0zmZQ&ab_channel=Strength%26SportPT

Child’s Pose with Rotation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1c8HPDu7plk&ab_channel=Strength%26SportPT

Iron Cross: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPT79u_yDlo&ab_channel=Strength%26SportPT

Scorpion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOatFQeIbGo&ab_channel=Strength%26SportPT

Butterfly QL Stretch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHBWJQXx7dQ&ab_channel=Strength%26SportPT

Kneeling QL Stretch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUT20tI5vuM&ab_channel=Strength%26SportPT

Bonus Stretches: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckVfbiyxTm0&ab_channel=AskDoctorJo

Matthew Sweeney