Scoliosis care should help you feel more comfortable and confident in your own body. At Mindful Movement PT, Dr. Emily uses Schroth-specific treatment, including breathing, posture and movement work tailored to your curve and goals. We connect that practice with strength and the everyday activities you want to enjoy.
One-on-one PT with Dr. Emily Warren, DPT, Cert. MDT. No referral needed. In-person care in Holladay, serving Greater Salt Lake City, and virtual coaching from anywhere.
Adolescent and adult scoliosis need different decisions
For a growing adolescent, curve progression and remaining growth can influence monitoring and bracing decisions. These decisions belong with the clinician managing the scoliosis.
Adults may seek help with pain, endurance, walking or other activity limitations. Imaging findings and curve measurements are important context, but treatment goals should also address the person’s daily function.
What useful progress can look like
We build goals around your age, curve and daily life. These can include more comfortable activity, improved strength and endurance, better understanding of your individual positioning and breathing cues, and more confidence practicing independently.
- Learn the setup: understand and repeat the curve-specific cues selected for you.
- Make a task easier: track comfort and fatigue during sitting, standing, walking or an activity you enjoy.
- Build capacity: progress the strength and endurance needed for the tasks you want back.
- Review the right measures: look at function and symptoms with us; curve measurements and growth monitoring remain part of specialist care when indicated.
We account for bone health, previous surgery and nerve symptoms in the plan. As practice becomes more confident, we adjust the amount and demand around your response. Our aim is useful progress and a plan you understand, not a promise that every curve will straighten.
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Schroth and other scoliosis-specific methods
Dr. Emily Warren, DPT, Cert. MDT, uses Schroth-specific treatment for scoliosis at Mindful Movement PT. Care is tailored to your curve pattern, symptoms and goals, with attention to three-dimensional postural correction, breathing and bringing these skills into daily activity.
Your plan may combine Schroth-specific practice with strength, endurance and pain education. We discuss realistic goals for your age and curve, how to practice at home and how care fits with specialist monitoring or bracing when needed.
What a scoliosis home program can help you practice
The aim is to carry what you learn into daily life. A curve-specific position practiced during an appointment should be understandable enough to revisit at home, with clear feedback about what you are trying to feel or see.
- Learn your individual setup: practice the supported position and breathing cues selected for your curve rather than copying a correction designed for someone else.
- Connect it with a task: discuss how to adapt sitting, standing, carrying or an activity that matters to you.
- Build endurance gradually: use the amount agreed at your visit, then progress as technique and tolerance allow.
- Track useful changes: note comfort, fatigue during daily tasks and confidence with activity. Curve measurements and growth monitoring remain part of specialist care when indicated.
Where McKenzie assessment and pain education fit
Schroth-specific treatment addresses the individual scoliosis pattern. McKenzie assessment may also help evaluate accompanying back or leg symptoms when appropriate; it is not a substitute for curve-specific care. Pain education helps you understand symptoms without assuming every uncomfortable movement means the curve is worsening.
We work toward activities you enjoy while accounting for growth, bone health, previous surgery and your medical plan. Learn more about Schroth’s individualized approach.
Coordinating with your specialist
Bring relevant imaging reports, information about progression, any brace instructions and recommendations from your treating specialist. PT can support your care plan, but should not replace scheduled curve monitoring or an indicated specialist review.
New or worsening weakness, sensory changes or significant changes in symptoms need clinical reassessment.
Appointments and further information
In-person care is available in Holladay, serving Greater Salt Lake City. virtual appointments may support discussion and home-program review when suitable; parts of the examination may require an in-person visit.
The Scoliosis Research Society provides patient guidance on living with scoliosis. For associated symptoms, see back-pain physical therapy.
Frequently asked questions
Does Dr. Emily use Schroth-specific treatment for scoliosis?
Yes. Dr. Emily uses Schroth-specific treatment as part of individualized scoliosis care. Bring relevant imaging and specialist recommendations so the plan reflects your curve, symptoms and goals.
What should a scoliosis home program help me practice?
It should give you clear, individualized movement and breathing instructions that you can repeat accurately. Dr. Emily can help connect that practice with strength and everyday activity. Adolescents who are still growing also need appropriate specialist monitoring; exercise does not replace that follow-up.