Popular Locations
- Pediatric Specialty Center - Park Avenue Medical Center
- Yale New Haven Children's Hospital
- Yale New Haven Hospital - York Street Campus
Yale New Haven Children’s Hospital rehabilitation therapists are highly-trained to provide treatment to children and adolescents with idiopathic scoliosis and kyphosis conditions using the Schroth Method.
This advanced method of treatment uses postural corrections for motion along with corrective breathing to reshape the patient’s body. Our certified physical therapists are specially trained in the Schroth method. Applying these skills, they provide patients with exceptional care and better outcomes. Treatment integrates pelvic corrections, self-elongation, rotational breathing and muscular re-education to address the patient’s spinal asymmetries.
While in the program, patients and families are educated on how to incorporate postural corrections and improve postural awareness in their everyday lives. Daily performance of the home exercise program is key to the success of this approach to treatment.
One-on-one therapy includes education, exercises and breathing techniques specific to each patient’s spinal curve type.
Therapy includes:
Goals of Schroth: