Join World Leading Dr. Lauren Fishman's study. 

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Dr. Fishman is doing a study using yoga and botulinum toxin (e.g., Botox, but there are others) to straighten the spines of adolescents with adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS), which is now 90% of all 9,000,00 Americans with scoliosis.  

 

Listen to this amazing, true story:

 

A yoga teacher brought her mother to the office, a tiny bird of a woman, a hospital administrator dying of 108 degrees of scoliosis, constricting her lungs and preventing her heart from filling so significantly that she could not withstand surgery.  I tried different yoga poses, saying possibly we could slow down its progress, and, long shot, even stopping it.  We worked for 4 months when I thought maybe I was kidding myself, but she looked better.  We got an X-ray and her curve had gone from 108 degrees to 64.  Born of that desperation, we now have helped close to 1000 people with similar conditions.  We owe this to the yoga-teaching daughter who nagged her mother’s into doing the poses every day. Just about every yoga tradition values persistence.

 

The study involves teaching one (1) yoga pose and one-time small botulinum injections.  A single visit to Dr. Fishman's office in Manhattan is all it takes.  He pay for the X-rays, which are EOS - 1/9th the radiation of the already low-radiation standard ones.