I've met various healthcare professionals with scoliosis: doctors from other specialties, yoga instructors or teachers of various non-surgical methods, physiatrists... but never a spine surgeon. I asked this question on other sites and no one ever knew of one. Many people have scoliosis; it's almost statistically impossible that there weren't any in the world.
Has anyone researched these topics enough to be certain that this is the case?
If the spine isn't flexible enough, I think it would be impossible to correct it in an adult and very difficult in a child as well.
I also believe it's a fact that the muscles on the sides of the spine can only compress the vertebrae, and that when the brain detects a structural imbalance, as occurs with scoliosis, it activates these muscles to correct the imbalance.
would also be a fact that (at least in flexible spines) this only happens when standing, and that the greater the curve, the greater the force exerted by the muscles on the concave side compared to those on the convex side, which, being stretched, might even be inactive. Therefore, the muscles on the concave side would further close the curve by bringing the vertebrae on that side closer together.
If all of this is exactly as described, and there are no other factors to consider, simply strengthening the spinal muscles would increase the curve the greater the curve would be.
Now, if the spine is flexible enough, when lying down, since gravity can't bend it, it would be stretched as much as that flexibility allows. Then, perhaps the muscles on the convex side, so weakened and perhaps even close to total inactivity, depending on the magnitude of the curve, could be activated, and they are the ones that could straighten the curve.
So, if while lying down, you tried to shift your torso towards the convex side, those muscles could be strengthened, and supposedly not those on the concave side, the villains of the piece.
Has anyone tried doing this, or have you seen any school propose doing it? I'm not sure if it's one of those Schroth exercises: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4973373/#:\~:text=History,scoliosis%20as%20a%20complement%20to%20treatment.