Complementary therapies
There is no reliable evidence that techniques such as osteopathy, chiropractic, physiotherapy, reflexology or acupuncture can make any difference to a potentially increasing spinal curvature. However, these complementary techniques can be useful if backache or pain is present. Most spinal curvatures are fairly painless. If a patient is told that an established spinal curvature can be cured by any of these techniques, they should not accept that information as true. It is certainly true that many mild curvatures will not increase whatever is done, if left untreated the long-term outcome is variable. Only surgery and sometimes bracing can substantially affect the curvature.
Some methods that our members find useful are detailed in this section.