Best Butt Exercises for mild scoliosis

katy123

Hi People

Can anyone recommend some glute exercise for someone with mild scoliosis. As in which ones to avoid, I have no idea. i don't currently suffer any pain.

Most if not all exercises that mentions scoliosis is focused on the back, so strengthening the back muscles without putting pressure on the spine. Many thanks.

jenniewb

katy123 wrote: »

Hi People

Can anyone recommend some glute exercise for someone with mild scoliosis. As in which ones to avoid, I have no idea. i don't currently suffer any pain.

Most if not all exercises that mentions scoliosis is focused on the back, so strengthening the back muscles without putting pressure on the spine. Many thanks.

Without wanting to minimise your diagnosis, many people have a form of scoliosis but are unaware (a curvature of the spine). I had this without knowing until a bone scan in my 30's. The only give away was one shoulder always being higher than the other, finding it very difficult to balance and (possibly due to other issues rather than the scoliosis) back pain which was bad enough to require a repeat prescription of heavy codeine.
I'm not saying this to make you feel you don't have a problem or should carry on regardless, but to be aware that you may not be in the minority and that you shouldn't see this as a limitation, just something to take into consideration if you find you find an exercise harder or you get any referral pain elsewhere due to your body adjusting to allow you being off balance (eg one knee or hip needing to work harder than the other).


What you need to do with any weak spot in your body, be it your knees or your ankles or your back or whatever, is to strengthen the muscles around the area. With your back dependant on where the curve is, the best thing you can do is to build on your core muscles which run all through your torso and actually to build these muscles requires all of your body works together to aid you rather than just making your stomach muscles stronger.


See if you can find a decent Pilates instructor- not all are excellent, but once you find a tutor you get on with and who helps you and you feel like your actually getting somewhere (my telling marker is if I find myself clock watching; the class is not for me!) once you've gotten somewhere, you can begin to work on exercises alone. But with Pilates the form/posture is so important that I really wouldn't advise reading things from a book or taking up the odd YouTube program. You really need someone in the room with you who is able to correct your posture, especially if you already struggle with a spine which doesn't conform to the perfectly straight type.


Try if you can to find a few different teachers; each will be good at different things, each can teach you different things. You can never learn too much.


What I would say not to do is to focus on one exercise or to not see the body as a whole. Eg just building up belly muscles or just building up back muscles. Your body works as a unit, if you over train one part, it will learn to take the strain of other parts which can become weaker. So as much as you would be best to build up the area around the weaker joint or problem area, make sure you don't over-build or over compensate elsewhere.


Unless you are wealthy enough a personal trainer to monitor you is not so easy so try to find classes where tutors can advise what you do in the class with you and you can watch other people to see what to aim for. It's not the same as having a PT to monitor and personally build a program for you but it does make a difference and can help.