imPerfect Yoga

📣 Scoliosis, Fibromyalgia, Chronic Back Pain, all Chronic Warriors - come join us for a supportive fun walk.

👩🏻‍🤝‍👩🏾 Bring along your friends, family or fur friend. Take as many breaks as you need - we will be meeting in a park that has benches throughout the walk.

📍Location: Gage Park, Hamilton Ontario. Mostly a flat and paved walking surface with bench seating. Ample parking off of Lawrence Rd.

No cost. The walk will be cancelled in the event of heavy rain, storms, or extreme heat.

🗓️ Date: Thursday July 18th at 6pm.

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📣A shoutout to all my clients. It’s hard work, mentally and physically, keeping up with daily scolio-corrections, exercises and the many other challenges that can come with scoliosis.

👏We all have hard days/weeks/months but I want you to know I see you and I am always cheering you on. There is no judgement here.

🤩 Pictured here is just a small number of the exercises and hours and hours that one of my awesome clients has put the work in on. Even on her hard days she shows up for herself and is an inspiration for us fellow scoliosis warriors.

👧 In my opinion the only thing more nerve wracking than getting updates about your own scoliosis is waiting to find out about that of your children.

🩻 While they aren’t sure what causes scoliosis they do know there’s a genetic component. With this in mind, it is important that if there is any family history of scoliosis, you continue to check your children or ask your family doctor to do so.

✅ My youngest daughter recently got the all clear for the second time from the orthopedic doctor because her curve measures under 10° (the threshold for diagnosing scoliosis). However, since she is an early teen, I will continue to check for any changes.

🩻 As you can see from her x-ray, the curve is minor ?however, there are other things to note; there is some rotation in the vertebrae, pelvic obliquity and a minor curve.

👀 Upon physical examination, there is also slight rotation noted and an elevated hip. So while the doctor says there is nothing to be done, we continue on with scoliosis specific exercises and general scolio-corrections.

❓🙋‍♀️ Not sure how to check your child at home? You can watch a quick video of the Adams Forward Bend test or send me a message.

Keep checking!!!!

I’ve always loved swimming, as you can probably tell from some of my posts 😊 I was on the swim team in high school, where I learned ins and out of each swim stroke. It wasn’t until years later that the front stroke began to bother my back 🙁

🏊‍♂️ As you can see in the pictures here, there is some rotation that happens when doing a proper front stroke. Now with this said I know others with scoliosis that this stroke does not bother them at all. It could simply be the location of my curves/rotation and or where the transition points are but this swim stroke no longer works for me and my back 🚫

If I was going to swim the front stroke now I would suggest keeping the body all in one long line, even when switching arms, so turning the entire body from head to toe, going side to side, not just the arms and thoracic area rotating. 🔄

🛟 My go to swim stroke now is the breaststroke. The stroke allows you to stay in line and I can adjust which hand I am pulling more water with, but both arms and legs are all moving together at the same time in the same direction.

‼️Reminder…you don’t have to stop doing what you enjoy, just find ways to modify!

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