Scoliosis Blog

Another month is flying by.

We have been in the clinic for almost a month. The reception desk arrived last week and the wall bars were installed today. It remains very exciting.

The studio is finally looking the way I envisaged.  I had a new 14 year old patient today who was referred with acute knee pain and according to her mother "by the way, she has been told that she has scoliosis".  The knee condition whilst significant is under control but the scoliosis which is VERY real needs to be investigated and managed.  It is comforting to know that we now have a dedicated space to deal with these cases and that patients can feel reassured that we can provide excellent therapy in the correct environment.

We will be taking some photo's over the next week or two and I will upload them to the site.

At the end of the last months blog I wrote about the Canberra marathon. Thankfully as well as unfortunately its over.  I managed to beat my previous marathon best (10 years ago) by almost an hour.  Its amazing to recognise that during the massively busy period of setting up and moving clinics I was still able to train reasonably hard.  I am now able to put more time into the clinic but miss the time on the road which I suspect my mind uses as "stress relief".  Although I think its a good idea to stay out of political debate I think Tony Abbot's physical training regime is a GOOD THING.  I wish I could complete an Ironman whilst being very busy and think he is an incredible athlete having only trained 10 hours per week.

This week is the SOSORT conference in Montreal.  Unfortunately I cannot make it there as there is much to do in the clinic. Quite a few of the Schroth therapists from around the world will be there.  I was lucky this week to have a chat to Lou-Anne Rivett who is a South African trained Schroth physio.  We had a very interesting chat about her approach to scoliotic curves and we will continue to work together.  She has been treating a patient for the last few years who has recently moved to Sydney. Lou-Anne was telling me that she was dreading "schlepping" on a plane from Johannesburg. I think that its much further from Sydney. This year  I will look foward to the conference book and next year I hope to be at the conference in Barcelona.

If you do read this blog......   please send me an email with some of your scoliosis stories.

Goal for the month...  get to meet some Scoliosis surgeons!!