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> About the Schroth method
To mark Katharina Schroth's professional diamond jubilee on 17 May 1981,
a tape-recorded message by Prof. Brussatis included the following words: "In
my capacity as President-Elect of the German Society
for Orthopaedics and Traumatology, it is an honour for me to address you and to express
my joy that today I have the opportunity to convey to you personally
the congratulations of our Society. I myself am a member of the research
society of the American Orthopedic Association, which has quite specifically
designated itself as the
"Scoliosis Research Society"
The very fact that such a society exists should indicate to you the immense and to some extent unresolved problems that still persist today when it comes to identifying the causes of scoliosis.
"Particularly after such a period of fruitless efforts and defeats, after so many terrible disappointments and frustrated attempts down through the centuries, it is a quite extraordinarily important achievement and landmark to have come to an understanding of the three-dimensional nature of the sequence of motion and of the deformation of the spine and especially to have exploited this insight in therapy to the maximum...
"I am convinced that the most important aspect deserving of emphasis in your treatment method is the fact that you take as your starting point a given situation, namely the deformity itself, that we are no longer able to alter very much. However, we are able to move forward - and this is where you use all available functional means to improve the conditioning of the body (and of respiratory function, in particular) - to further help patients and in particular to motivate them in their sometimes extremely severe disability, also with regard to their initial psychological state."
"Once we see such a combination unfold again, as exemplified in
your life's work, then we know what we owe you and then we also understand
very precisely where our future path will lead: only towards three-dimensional
treatment."
These remarks show quite clearly that traditional mainstream medicine
acknowledged the Schroth method as pointing the way ahead for the conservative
management of scoliosis.
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